Staff Software Engineer, Ads Content Safety

Google

Location
Mountain View, CA, USA
Salary range
USD $207,000 – $300,000 base
Workplace
In office
Level
Senior / Staff IC
Job family
Engineering
Posted
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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.

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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.

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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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About Google

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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Search, advertising, Android, YouTube and Cloud, and the source of Perspective API and Jigsaw.

Moderation, reported

Google files its moderation decisions with the European Commission, separately for each service below. The newest we hold cover May 2026.

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