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Google · 1 day ago

Staff Software Engineer, AI, Infrastructure, Applied AI

Sunnyvale, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$197K/yr - $291K/yr

8+ years exp

Google is a leading technology company that develops next-generation technologies impacting billions of users. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect and build high-performance infrastructure for AI workflows, ensuring system reliability and efficiency while transitioning experimental models into production services.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Architect and build high-performance, distributed infrastructure to support agentic AI workflows. Leverage C++ to ensure low-latency agentic systems for real-world enterprise loads

Take full ownership of the tech stack, transitioning experimental models into production services. Ensure system reliability, observability, and fault tolerance in complex, multi-agent environments

Drive inference cost optimization and system efficiency. Implement efficient connectors, optimize kernels, manage memory usage, and reduce latency to ensure our AI solutions are not just powerful, but economically viable and at scale

Provide technical guidance on system architecture and code quality. Foster a culture of engineering excellence through design reviews, code audits, and the adoption of best practices

Maintain a tight loop between hypothesis and deployment. Quickly prototype new capabilities and seamlessly harden them for production release while focusing customer needs

Qualification

C++ML designML infrastructureSpeech/audio technologyReinforcement learningData structuresAlgorithmsCross-functional projectsBachelor’s degreeMaster’s degreePhDTechnical leadership

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

8 years of experience in software development focusing on infrastructure engineering in C++

5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture

5 years of experience with one or more of the following: speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), or specialization in another ML field

5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning)

Preferred

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

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

Google

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Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.

Founded in 1998

Mountain View, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.google.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (8763)

2024 (8872)

2023 (9682)

2022 (11626)

2021 (9109)

2020 (9785)

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$26.1M

Key Investors

Andy Bechtolsheim

2004-08-19IPO

1999-06-07Series Unknown· $25M

1998-11-01Angel· $1M

Leadership Team

Sundar Pichai

CEO

Thomas Kurian

CEO - Google Cloud

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