Staff Software Engineer, AI/ML, Consumer Shopping Quality
Google · United States · Posted 2026-08-17
Job description
Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects. Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers. Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines. Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience in software development. 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture. 5 years of experience leading ML design and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning). 2 years of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multi-modal, large vision models) or with GenAI-related concepts (e.g., language modeling, computer vision). Preferred Qualifications: Experience defining long-term technical goal and establishing strategic roadmaps for ambiguous problem spaces. Proven experience solving open-ended, complex quality problems, identifying systemic gaps, and driving rigorous root-cause analysis to resolve them. Expertise in designing robust system architecture and AI/ML-powered solutions. Strong leadership skills to drive cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, and partner organizations. Strong mentoring skills and the ability to move quickly in fast-paced environments. Passion for building high-quality, user-facing AI features.