Senior Linguist/Ontologist, Google Shopping

Job Description

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Master's degree in Linguistics, Computer Science, Library or Information Science, Philosophy, other related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in ontology.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with ontology development (e.g. RDF Schema, Ontology Web Langage, SPARQL, Semantic Web, or frame based KR systems).
• Experience leading large cross-functional projects.

About the job

Google Shopping’s mission is to connect users around the world with the products, brands, and retailers they are looking for at any stage of their shopping journey through delightful and useful experiences. Structured data that represents the intents, categories, and features that users are searching for is a critical foundation for the wide range of Shopping features that are available across Google surfaces.

As a project lead on the Shopping Linguist team, you will lead large cross-functional efforts to design new semantic representations, directly develop new graph structures and content, and run evaluations and analytics to drive growth and improvements in Shopping. You will partner with other teams at Google to manage new data structures, as well as the export of Shopping’s data into Google-wide systems like the Knowledge Graph (KR).

You will use a variety of semantic modeling techniques, judging trade-offs between formality and usability, and deciding when to reuse existing Google KRs and when to develop new ones. You will work with engineers and linguists to increase the scope of Google's semantic representations through both human and automatic methods.

Users come first at Google. Nowhere is this more important than on our Advertising and Commerce team: we believe that ads and commercial information can be highly useful to our users if that information is relevant to what our users wish to find or do. Advertisers worldwide use Google Ads to promote their products; publishers use AdSense to serve relevant ads on their website; and business around the world use our products (like Google Shopping, and Google Wallet) to support their online businesses and bring users into their offline stores. We are constantly innovating to deliver the most effective advertising and commerce opportunities of tomorrow.

Responsibilities

• Identify, initiate, and own large schema development projects that will improve features and experiences for Google users.
• Analyze graph structures and data to develop new semantic representations and content.
• Lead efforts involving fellow linguists and cross-functional partners to develop new techniques for expansion, improvement, and analysis of the Shopping Schema Graph.
• Evaluate the quality of ontologies through both industry-standard and novel methods.
• Collaborate with both user and merchant-facing teams to facilitate and consult on ontology usage.

Location

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