Tech Lead, YouTube Shorts Discovery, ML Recommendations

Job description

Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions. Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects. Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines. Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers. Lead the design and implementation of solutions in specialized ML areas, optimize ML infrastructure, and guide the development of model optimization and data processing strategies. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience in software development. 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture. 5 years of experience with one or more of the following: Speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field. 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning). Preferred Qualifications: Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or a related technical field. 8 years of experience in data structures and algorithms, with experience building distributed, large-scale machine learning systems. 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role, defining technical goals, setting roadmap direction, and mentoring executive engineering teams. Experience designing and deploying recommendation systems, personalized ranking models, or retrieval systems. Expertise in managing the cold-start problem, reinforcement learning, or exploration/exploitation algorithms.