YouTube Partner Engineering Lead, Mobile and Video Infra

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience working with client-side web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or HTTP).
• 3 years of experience coding with one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, C/C++, Python).
• Experience troubleshooting technical issues for internal/external partners or customers.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of software-focused program or project management experience in the business technology or networking sectors, with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional engineering, sales, and marketing teams.
• Experience partnering with embedded systems, mobile ecosystems, SoC providers, or device manufacturing companies (in mobile or SoC embedded).
• Experience with operating system architectures, media/playback frameworks, and application ecosystems.
• Ability to drive complex cross-functional initiatives in both structured and ambiguous environments with attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to present technical concepts and business strategies to internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical liaison, aligning YouTube's cross-functional product, UX, legal, and video infrastructure teams with global mobile OEMs, SoC vendors, and carriers to deploy YouTube's innovations.
• Lead co-engineering initiatives to adapt YouTube apps to the hardware profiles, ensuring flawless UI navigation, low-latency playback, and optimized resource consumption across billions of devices.
• Synchronize client-side player engines with backend transcoding pipelines to drive the global adoption of advanced media codecs. Partner directly with external engineering teams to isolate, debug, and resolve platform-level regressions—such as audio/video sync errors, playback crashes— before production releases.
• Design and enforce strict hardware/software certification workflows, validating compliance with security protocols, Widevine DRM, and YouTube’s internal quality standards.
• Leverage client-side playback telemetry and automated testing frameworks to identify ecosystem-wide performance trends, translating insights into improvements for YouTube’s core streaming architecture.