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Staff Software Engineer, AI/ML, Google Cloud

GoogleMillbrae, CAL6 LeadOctober 26th, 2026
Overview: In this role you design, build, and scale software and ML systems while providing technical leadership on high-impact initiatives. You will guide a distributed team of engineers and align cross-team goals, timelines, and outcomes. You'll lead ML design, optimize infrastructure, and shape data processing and model deployment strategies. The position sits within Google's AI and Infrastructure team, contributing to industry-leading scale and reliability. This is a transformative role at the intersection of software and AI, with opportunities to influence core platforms like TPUs and Vertex AI.
Responsibilities: Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and enhance large-scale software solutionsProvide technical leadership on high-impact projectsManage project priorities, deadlines and deliverablesFacilitate alignment across teams on goals, outcomes and timelinesInfluence and coach a distributed team of engineersLead ML design and implementation, optimize ML infrastructure, guide data processing and model optimization strategiesKey requirementsBachelor's degree or equivalent ??????cal experience 8 years of software development experience 5 years in one or more: Speech/audio, reinforcement learning, ML infrastructure, or other ML specialization 5 years leading ML design and end-to-end ML (deployment, evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning)5 years testing and launching software products 3 years software design and architecture experienceleadershipcross-functional collaborationmentoring distributed teamsML design and optimizationML infrastructuremodel deployment and evaluation