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Software Engineer, Google Ads, Auction Mechanisms

Google

$141,000 - $202,000
Dec 17, 2025
Mountain View, CA, US
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Google is looking to optimize value for advertisers, users, and Google through mechanism innovations in advertising. The goal is to improve auction systems and user-value landscapes to enhance long-term business outcomes.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience with software development in C++.
  • 1 year of experience in experiment design.
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related technical field.
  • 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms in either an academic or industry setting.
  • Experience in code and system health, diagnosis and resolution, and software test engineering.
  • Experience with auction theory.

Responsibilities

  • Write analyses to test hypotheses about the user-value landscape and what improvements (e.g., new mechanisms or improvements to existing ones) might be appropriate.
  • Implement and test mechanisms in the auction.
  • Contribute in designing experiments to evaluate hypotheses, tease out and analyze effects on improving user and advertiser value, and document findings.
  • Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
  • Collaborate closely with auction research, ads prediction stack modeling, bidding, ads UI and targeting.
  • Work on hypotheses about the way the world works, test them experimentally, and iterate to reach a more ideal state.
  • Develop and test auction changes to optimize long-term business for Google.

Other

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related technical field.
  • Experience developing accessible technologies.