Software Engineer III, Commerce Actor Safety, Intelligence — Google Switzerland
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- Yesterday
Role overview
Minimum qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages Python etc, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
- Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Contribute to and execute the actor safety strategy in collaboration with the PM and Eng leads by blending abuse prevention frameworks with targeted, tactical protections.
- Analyze complex abuse patterns and system precision/recall metrics to drive continuous improvements across our AI models (mScore, potential damage, identity change), detection systems, and operational workflows in close collaboration with partner Trust and Safety teams.
- 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages Python etc, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
Main responsibilities
- Contribute to and execute the actor safety strategy in collaboration with the PM and Eng leads by blending abuse prevention frameworks with targeted, tactical protections.
- Analyze complex abuse patterns and system precision/recall metrics to drive continuous improvements across our AI models (mScore, potential damage, identity change), detection systems, and operational workflows in close collaboration with partner Trust and Safety teams.
- Design, train, deploy, and iterate on ML models including Gemini LLMs, GNNs, and NLP architectures to detect spam, fraudulent actors, and abusive behaviour across shopping products.
- Build data pipelines for training data curation, establishing active learning workflows, synthetic datasets, and robust frameworks (LLM-as-a-judge) for model evaluation, monitoring, and performance tracking.
- Design and build high-throughput, resilient back-end services with production hygiene.
- Build our intelligence platform, managing models and seamlessly integrating with the actor lifecycle.
Key requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages Python etc, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
- 2 years of experience in machine learning development and Machine Learning (ML) infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, or fine tuning) or large-scale data systems.
- Experience with relational databases and writing SQL queries.
Application process
- Experience working with distributed infrastructure, storage, or application frameworks (such as Spanner or server platform).
- Experience or interest in Large Language Models (LLMs), Gemini, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or graph neural networks/graph mining. About the job
- Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another.
- Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search.
- We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day.
- As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve.
- We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.
- The Commerce Safety team ensures a safe and trustworthy Google Commerce experience.
Additional details
- Experience or interest in Large Language Models (LLMs), Gemini, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or graph neural networks/graph mining.
- We're on the front lines, protecting users and merchants by maintaining content and merchant integrity and compliance.
Notes and original content
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Questions about this listing
What salary does Google Switzerland offer for this role?
Google Switzerland lists CHF 83'000 - 126'000 gross per year for this position in Zürich. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Google Switzerland offer?
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Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Zürich?
EU/EFTA residents living in the border zone of the country adjoining Canton Zürich can apply for a G permit; the Swiss employer files it with that canton's migration office after the contract is signed. Border-zone rules and processing times vary by neighbouring country and canton, so confirm the specifics with Zürich's cantonal migration office or with HR during the application.
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