Senior Staff Software Engineer, Generative Retail Ad Formats and LLM Applications

• Address open-ended problems at the frontier of Generative AI and retail ad products — such as how to dynamically compose and personalize ad formats in real time to better serve complex queries and mixed intents.
• Influence organization strategy and prioritization by identifying key areas worth investing in and defining the technical roadmap. Co-define product strategy with cross-functional leadership.
• Work closely with Ads Quality, Commerce, and Search stakeholders across the board. Build deep cross-product area partnerships. Optimize the retail ad products ecosystem end-to-end and optimize the whole page layouts.
• Own the holistic technical architecture. Manage complex, multi-quarter, cross-team initiatives from design through launch; proactively diagnose and resolve cross-system bottlenecks; raise the bar on engineering excellence, experimentation velocity, and production reliability.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures and algorithms.
• 8 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 5 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 8 years of experience with ML/AI algorithms and tools, deep learning or other modeling.
• 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• 2 years of experience with GenAI (e.g., LLMs, multi-modal, vision models, language modeling, computer vision).

Preferred qualifications:

• PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, or related fields.
• Experience in GenAI related model fine tuning, large language models building or product enablement exploration.
• Experience in successfully applying GenAI and machine learning approaches to real-world content problems.
• Deep familiarity with the Search/Shopping/Ads stack, and solid understanding of ML and AI concepts with direct experience applying LLMs in user-facing products.
• Excellent programming skills leveraging GenAI tools, and a strong mindset with extensive experience navigating data-driven decision-making and driving cross-functional alignments.
• Strong mathematical skills with knowledge of statistical methods.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures and algorithms.
• 8 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 5 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 8 years of experience with ML/AI algorithms and tools, deep learning or other modeling.
• 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• 2 years of experience with GenAI (e.g., LLMs, multi-modal, vision models, language modeling, computer vision).