Research Scientist, Google Ads - Google
Los Angeles, CA
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience working with deep learning libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Keras.
- Experience working with data sets.
- One or more scientific publication submission(s) for conferences, journals, or public repositories.
- Coding experience in Python, JavaScript, R, Java, or C++.
Preferred qualifications:
- 2 years of coding experience in Python, JavaScript, R, Java, or C++.
- 1 year of experience leading research efforts and influencing other researchers.
- Experience deploying machine learning models in production.
- Experience with computational advertising or web search.
About the job
As an organization, Google maintains a portfolio of research projects driven by fundamental research, new product innovation, product contribution and infrastructure goals, while providing individuals and teams the freedom to emphasize specific types of work. As a Research Scientist, you'll setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly, managing deadlines and deliverables while applying the latest theories to develop new and improved products, processes, or technologies. From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more.
As a Research Scientist, you'll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.
Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.
Responsibilities
- Adapt and fine-tune Gemini models for retrieval, pseudo-rater, and other Ads applications.
- Collaborate with researchers and engineers in the Google DeepMind Gemini pre-training team.
- Develop ML modeling techniques that influence Ads products.
- Work with product teams to develop and deploy user-facing products.
- Author research papers to share and generate impact of research results across organizations and in the research community.
