Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud Generative AI Blackbelt

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience with machine learning design and infrastructure, including experience architecting Generative AI applications and agentic systems.
• 3 years of experience leading technical projects and providing technical leadership to cross‑functional teams.
• Experience in Python and with production‑level systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical fields.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience architecting and developing software or infrastructure for scalable, distributed systems and with machine learning technologies.
• Experience building scalable software architectures that use Agentic or GenAI driven capabilities.
• Experience contributing to the developer community through open‑source contributions, technical publications, or speaking at industry conferences in the field of AI/ML.
• Understanding of responsible AI practice.

About the job:

The company'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 the company’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.

The company Cloud Platform Generative AI Black Belt team helps customers unlock their potential with AI. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes using AI and ML. The ML, Systems, & Cloud AI (MSCA) organization at the company designs, implements, and manages the hardware, software, machine learning, and systems infrastructure for all the company services (Search, YouTube, etc.) and the company Cloud. Our end users are Googlers, Cloud customers and the billions of people who use the company services around the world. We prioritize security, efficiency, and reliability across everything we do - from developing our latest TPUs to running a global network, while driving towards shaping the future of hyperscale computing. Our global impact spans software and hardware, including the company Cloud’s Vertex AI, the leading AI platform for bringing Gemini models to enterprise customers.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, understand key customer technical objections, and develop the strategy to resolve technical blockers.
• Provide AI expertise to support the technical relationship with the company’s customers, manage product and solution briefings, create demos, proof‑of‑concept work, and partner directly with product management to prioritize solutions impacting customer adoption to the company Cloud.
• Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to implement a complete solution the company Cloud.
• Support developers, creators, and enterprises to leverage the company’s Generative Language APIs so they can build their own AI products in the future.
• Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as needed.

The company is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.