Software Engineer III, YouTube, Content ID Claiming

• Leverage multi-modal signals (e.g., visual/audio/melody matching) to generate highly accurate content claims.
• Identify unauthorized Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) reuse of human likeness (e.g., facial/voice), animated characters and fictional universes alongside classical copyright.
• Detect Content ID bypass tricks and identify bad references used for illicit monetization while protecting innocent creators.
• Build, run and maintain both our core quality systems and the underlying infrastructure that powers them.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• Experience with data analysis and signal quality testing.

Preferred qualifications:

• 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience working with large-scale data processing pipelines.
• Experience with data analysis and statistical thinking enabling you to rigorously evaluate metrics, tune algorithms and make data-motivated decisions.
• Experience designing clean Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and interfaces that integrate cleanly with multiple upstream services.
• Familiarity or strong interest in signal processing, machine learning frameworks or biometric classification workflows.
• Strong code health advocacy, with experience writing comprehensive integration tests for complex logical state machines.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• Experience with data analysis and signal quality testing.