Staff Software Engineer, Youtube Ads, Agentic Video

Staff Software Engineer, YouTube Ads, Agentic Video

Google's YouTube Ads Creative team is embarking on a multi-year journey to redefine the global landscape of video advertising. Driven by our mission to deliver the right message to the right viewer at the right moment, we are leveraging Generative AI to build intelligent, automated systems that pioneer high-fidelity, at-scale video creative creation. We are seeking a senior tech lead to drive the strategy, architecture, and delivery of our new agentic video creation application. In this role, you will bridge the gap between frontier AI capabilities and massive business impact, identify and infuse deep domain insights, and drive the technology evolution to power both co-pilot and auto-pilot creative experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical strategy for AI video ads creation, synthesizing advertiser objectives, viewer expectations, and frontier technologies.
• Develop multi-modal agentic systems (e.g., context understanding, narrative design, video composition) to produce at-scale, agency-quality AI video creatives.
• Adapt frontier generative media capabilities to the quality standards of the Ads domain.
• Establish metrics for evaluation and drive performance hillclimbing.
• Design robust, scalable APIs and microservices to expose generative video capabilities across the broader Ads ecosystem.
• Mentor junior engineers on the team.

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