Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
• 5 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 3 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience building developer tools (e.g., automated releases, code design and testing, test automation frameworks).
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role, overseeing projects.
• Experience with AI/ML-powered feature development and productization.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience working collaboratively on projects and with internal and external stakeholders.

About the job

Google'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 Google’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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

We are a team driven by the mission to revolutionize productivity. This role offers the unique opportunity to move beyond theoretical AI model generation and apply AI to solve tangible, real-world engineering tests.

In this role, you will develop and implement AI-powered tools to significantly accelerate the code creation process. you will explore and integrate AI solutions to make code reviews faster, more efficient, and more insightful. You will drive innovation using AI to optimize testing procedures and streamline issue triage, leading to substantial cost reductions.

Android is Google’s open-source mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

Responsibilities

• Lead technically a team of engineers by prototyping solutions, researching and oversee technical excellence.
• Build AI/ML solutions and tools into development workflows and platforms.
• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs to support AI-powered features.
• Evaluate AI models by designing and utilising custom evaluation sets focused on quality, coherence, and safety assessment.
• Contribute to the development of tools and infrastructure that lower the barrier to entry for AI/ML development within the organisation.