Software Engineer III, Play, Search Gateway

Google • Mountain View, CA

4h • $141,000 - $202,000

About The Position

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change
how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one
another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend
well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from
all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale
system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence,
natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is
growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project
critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as
you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be
versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new
problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

Play Search is a critical product for Play’s growth, Google business growth, and
Android ecosystem. Search Gateway and Off-Store Search are the entrypoints of
Play Search, including Search Home, Play Suggest, Voice Search and App
Universal.

We are working on the end-to-end search products and solving interesting and
impactful problems. That includes how to inspire, educate, and accelerate users
in their app search journey, how to understand user intents expressed in a
variety of ways. To understand and build app knowledge of millions of Android
apps and smart algorithms for surfacing the right content for user queries. To
leverage deep learning for information retrieval and ranking quality and search
with Gen-AI and build Gen-AI powered search features

The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software
platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our
first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software,
and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new
technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more
seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (C++), or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• Experience in experimental design, analysis, and performance tools.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
• Experience in distributed computing, information retrieval, data mining and machine learning.

Responsibilities

• Work on query mining, generation, ranking and recommendation modeling solutions.
• Work on product features from offline to online to land user-facing features on search entrypoints.
• Conduct data analysis to understand user search journey, identify frictions, issues and opportunities, and turn learnings into ideas and solutions.
• Own projects end-to-end from initial idea to design, analysis, implementation, experiment and launch.
• Collaborate with Product Management, UX, Storefront, Platform and Personalization teams to execute product roadmap. Research, develop and implement innovative AI/ML algorithms and models for Play Search.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level