Staff Software Engineer, Deep Data Research, Applied AI

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.

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.

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.

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.