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Google · 3 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer, Generative AI, 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. The Staff Software Engineer will drive technical strategy and execution for complex projects on the conversational AI platform, collaborating closely with product management and UX to define product strategy and ensure scalable solutions.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

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

Qualification

Generative AI techniquesMachine Learning designSoftware architectureTechnical leadershipData structuresAlgorithmsModel deploymentModel evaluationData processingDebuggingFine tuningCross-functional collaborationCommunication skills

Required

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

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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