Google hires ML engineers for Discover personalization, up to $300k salary
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-10-27
Google is hiring machine learning engineers for its Discover personalization team at all levels (three postings on LinkedIn; US pay ranges $147k–$300k plus bonus and equity).
The team builds user models from all interactions across Google products and uses them for Discover retrieval and ranking.
Key areas:
- Sequence models based on long activity histories
- Generative retrieval using Semantic IDs
- Next-generation large-scale pre-ranking
- Interest clustering and representation learning
Named problems: Neural Deep Retrieval, Activity Clustering, Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Objective Ranking. Techniques include transformers, distillation, reward shaping, multi-task learning, neural bandits, and LLM-based RAG, spanning content, queries, videos, and notifications.
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