Staff Software Engineer, Ads Content Safety
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
- Salary range
- USD $207,000 – $300,000 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Senior / Staff IC
- Job family
- Engineering
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P4, Staff. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as P4 · asks for 8+ years · posts $207k to $300k base at a company over 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from Google's posting.
Engineering role on Google Ads Content Safety, building AI-driven consumer trust enforcement for the ads business. The work is to automate policy enforcement and reduce user harm across a very high volume of ad queries and complex policy cases. The posting places it in a technical leadership role mentoring distributed engineering teams.
What you'd do
- Define technical roadmaps for models and agents that automate ad policy enforcement.
- Prototype and test architectural options for AI and LLM-based consumer trust enforcement.
- Design, build, test, deploy and maintain large-scale enforcement software.
What it asks for
- 8 years of software development experience.
- 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.
- 5 years of full-stack development across back-end languages such as Java, Python, Golang or C++ and front-end work in JavaScript or TypeScript.
- 3 years of software design and architecture experience.
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent hands-on experience.
- 5 years leading technical project strategy and ML infrastructure work such as model deployment and evaluation (preferred).
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AI and model safety · Media and streaming · Infrastructure and developer tools · Mountain View, CA · More than 100,000 people · Founded 1998
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