Software Engineer III, AI/ML, Ads Bidding

About this role

### Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience programming in Python or C++.
• 1 year of experience with model development, model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, and fine-tuning.
• Experience with applied mathematics or statistics.

### Preferred qualifications:

• 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 with operations research.

## About the job

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.

We build and maintain machine learning models using AI and ML techniques to predict user interactions on Search Ads. These models are a key component in setting advertisers' bids, with the goal of improving both satisfaction and return on investment (ROI) for Search Ads advertisers using auto-bidding products. By optimizing towards advertisers' objectives, auto-bidding products drive Google's global Ads business.

In this role, you will be involved in the full machin...