Software Engineer III, Centerpiece

About the role

Centerpiece provides the foundational ground truth on what content is truly essential on any webpage, by cleanly separating main content from auxiliary clutter. It supports Google's search ranking algorithms, generative AI features and LLM pretraining pipelines. This Software Engineer III position works on launching new versions of Centerpiece, improving its tooling and infrastructure, and implementing GenAI solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Launch new versions of Centerpiece by improving the prompted Professor model, applying the Computer Use Agent and training better student models.
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices (style guidelines, code accuracy, testability and efficiency).
• Improve the tooling and infrastructure.
• Maintain or replace other systems that provide similar data, redirecting clients to Centerpiece.
• Implement GenAI solutions, use ML infrastructure and contribute to data preparation, optimization and performance improvements.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages, or 1 year with an advanced degree.
• 1 year of experience with ML infrastructure (model deployment, evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
• Experience with modern GenAI techniques (LLMs, multi-modal, large vision models) or related concepts such as language modeling and computer vision.
• Preferred: Master's or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms, and experience building accessible technologies.

In most cases, the hiring process includes in-person interviews. The role sits within Google Search, which aims to make searching for information accessible and useful for billions of people worldwide.