Staff Software Engineering, YouTube ML Efficiency
Google · San Bruno, CA
About this role
Google is hiring a director-level Director of Engineering in the software engineering function based in San Bruno, CA. The posting calls out experience with Machine Learning, NLP, Distributed Systems, System Design. Compensation is listed at $207,000–$300,000 per year.
- Role
- Director of Engineering
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- director
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Bruno, CA
- Posted
- Apr 6, 2026
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Job description
from Google careersGoogle'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.
The YouTube Discovery Efficiency team is responsible for improving performance and extracting maximum efficiency for machine learning and AI workloads that powers YouTube. In this role, you will work at the intersection of modeling and efficiency by helping evolve YouTube's models for next TPU generations.