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Machine Learning Staff Software Engineer, Search Personalization

Google

Location

Mountain View, CA

Type

Full-time

Posted

10/27/2026

Compensation

$207,000 - $300,000 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202698.4% approval-14% YoY
👑 Elite sponsor

Job description

The Machine Learning Staff Software Engineer for Search Personalization at Google will focus on developing personalized user models to enhance user experience across Google Search. This role is part of the Discover Personalization team, which aims to connect users with relevant information by leveraging advanced machine learning techniques. The engineer will tackle complex challenges in machine learning and quality, contributing to the optimization of retrieval and ranking systems. This position requires a blend of technical expertise and leadership to drive projects from design to implementation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 5 years of experience building and deploying recommendation systems models in production.
  • 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure.
  • 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement personalized user models to optimize for user happiness.
  • Build user and content clustering models to enable core personalization and ranking use cases.
  • Enhance model performance and personalization precision through advanced modeling techniques.
  • Scale the model's applications to various modalities and use cases.
  • Create next-generation real-time ML models that capture new user interests and trends.

Benefits

  • Employees at Google are often offered benefits like comprehensive health insurance, 401(k) matching, and flexible work arrangements, among other benefits.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Google Llc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

908

FY2026

Approval rate

98.4%

FY2026

LCA certified

4,273

FY2026

Entry-level share

0.6%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

-14%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-51%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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