Staff Software Engineer, Deep Data Research, Applied AI

Google

Sunnyvale, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agents, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Natural Language, Best Practices, Business Growth, Call Centers, Cloud Computing, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Concrete, Cross-Functional, Customer Experience, Customer/Client Research, Data Modeling, Data Processing, Data Storage, Data Structures, Debugging Skills, Distributed Computing, Environmental Impact, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Fast Food, Information Retrieval, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Internet Search, Large-Scale Systems, Leadership, Modeling Languages, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Network Design, Product Documentation, Product Management, Product Strategy, Product/Service Launch, Project/Program Management, Refactoring, Software Administration, Software Development, Software Engineering, Startup, Team Lead/Manager, Team Player, Technical Leadership, Technical Strategy, Technical/Engineering Design, Test Design, Test Plan/Schedule, Time Management, User Interface Design, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)
LOCATION
Sunnyvale, CA
POSTED
30+ days ago

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
  • 5 years of experience with design, architecture and testing/launching software products.
  • 2 years of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., Large Language Models (LLMs), Multi-Modal) or with GenAI-related concepts (e.g., language modeling, computer vision).

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  • 3 years of experience working in a complex organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

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.With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Applied AI builds conversational agents deployed at a large-scale that achieve very meaningful results in the real world. Include the customer agent built for large call center environments, to fast food ordering handled by our food AI agent. The team is transforming how enterprises connect with customers through the power of AI.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will work directly with the model builders (e.g., Google DeepMind/Vertex), learn and work with brilliant AI leaders, and have access to global customers via our existing Google Cloud relationships.

The Cloud Applied AI (AAI) powers business growth with Gemini Enterprise. Our portfolio includes Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience (Shopping Agent, CX Agent Studio, Agent Assist, Vertex AI Search - Commerce, Customer Experience Insights), along with other vertical and domain packaged solutions. We enable high adoption and speed to value by building solutions that are quickly deployed, delivering new 0-to-1 capabilities with startup agility. Team members operate at the forefront of AI, collaborating directly with model builders with unprecedented speed. Join us to work on cutting-edge projects and shape the future of AI in a fast-paced, collaborative, and impactful environment.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the technical strategy, architecture, and execution for complex, ambiguous projects on our conversational AI platform. Define the technical roadmap for scalable, long-term solutions.
  • Act as the lead engineering partner for product management and UX. Actively define product strategy, refine ambiguous customer needs into concrete technical designs, and drive consensus across teams.
  • Manage and iterate on new platform capabilities to meet immediate customer needs. Balance this speed with long-term technical health, advocating best practices to ensure solutions are clean, maintainable, scalable, testable, and easy to refactor.
  • Leverage user empathy to guide product direction, respond thoughtfully to customer feedback, and build intuitive, powerful, and seamless experiences for the developers who rely on our platform.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

About the Company

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Google

Build for everyone

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

Benefits

We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.

Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.

How we Hire

Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to  build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.

Learn more about our hiring process.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer Software
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria
FOUNDED
1998
WEBSITE
https://goo.gle/4dbno6V