Senior Staff Linguist, Google Ads

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We're made up of multiple teams, building Google's Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

As a Senior Staff Linguist in Google Ads, you will work across Google to drive improvements in quality, classification, information structure, and natural language understanding and generation. You will work on complex projects spanning multiple products, groups, and disciplines, as well as focused efforts to produce specific product components or answer research questions. Your work will involve natural language processing and understanding, phonology, phonetics, syntax, semantics, ontology, program management, human subject research, experimental design, statistics, corpus linguistics, and large scale data acquisition.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Conduct research for journals and conferences that create impact on product's success.
2. Extend/design conceptual frameworks and semantic representations to support models of language use.
3. Develop and implement linguistic resources for different languages and NLP task-oriented applications.
4. Work with engineers and researchers to evaluate linguistic direction for language-specific NLP and dialogue analysis/modeling.
5. Train, evaluate, and debug custom classifiers or NLP/dialogue systems.
6. Process and manage large amounts of data, analyze data and graph structures.
7. Manage workflows and engage with stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate delivery of work.

This role offers an opportunity to be part of groundbreaking and exciting work at Google, using insights from linguistics and related fields to constantly improve our products. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in linguistics, cognitive science, or a related field, with extensive experience in managing human computation programs and implementing NLP solutions.