# Jie Ren

> Software Engineer at Hippocratic AI

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jieren

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Hippocratic AI
Jan 2025 – Present
Hippocratic AI is a health care AI agent company, helping providers, insurers, pharmacies to leverage GenAI for productivity gain. I am working on tools to compose AI agents.

### Senior Staff Software Engineer / Senior Engineering Manager @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
● Managed the YouTube Watch Page Server team, tech led the software engineers, and delivered watch experience for YouTube videos millions of times per second
● Launched a groundbreaking personalized watch experience for both long form and short form videos, using machine learning prediction models trained by our own team to double the click-through rate (CTR) of UI components and improve revenue for creators by 50%
● Launched YouChat, a Watch page chat bot, that bridges viewers with Google's Gemini model; 
● Launched a Google Text2Image GenAI model on YouTube Playlist covers
● Consistently supported all YouTube client platform teams: Mobile, Desktop, Living Room, and Music
● Guided dozens of partner teams that need to build product features for the billions of viewers of YouTube watch pages

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Led and managed an engineering team for Google Ads Data Hub

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Worked on Google Video Partners, publishers showing video ads on partner websites and apps.

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Led and managed the team to work on YouTube TrueView ads.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Led and managed the team to create and improve YouTube TrueView ads. 
- Drove YouTube Ads revenue dozens of times into billions of dollars.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Launched View-Through Conversion for Google Display Ads

### Software Engineer III @ Google
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Worked on Google AdSense (Google Display Ads)

### Graduate Student Researcher @ Institute for Software Research/University of California, Irvine
Jan 1999 – Jan 2006


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Computer Science
UC Irvine

### B.Sc & M.Sc. in Computer Science
Fudan University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jie-ren-077a602

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Last updated: 2026-04-11