Google currently has 607 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Software Engineer (4), AI Adoption Customer Engineer, Google Cloud (3), Senior Software Engineer (3), AI Outcome Customer Engineer, Cloud AI Tech GTM (2), Conversational AI Consultant (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Google's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (43%), serving infrastructure (26%), application (18%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Google is hiring AI talent in: United States (388 roles), India (50 roles), Singapore (43 roles), Poland (23 roles).
Job postings at Google most frequently mention: Software Engineering, Algorithms & Data Structures, System Design, Computer Architecture, Machine Learning.
In the past 30 days, Google has posted 605 new AI-related roles. That is a +29% change versus the prior 30 days (469 → 605).
Google has 584 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are focused on agents, representing 40% of the total, and serving infrastructure, at 26%. The most frequent technical tags include model_serving, agent_orchestration, and evals. Over the last 30 days, Google has added 413 new AI roles, a 105% increase compared to the preceding 30-day period.
Currently tracking 514 active AI roles, with 1186 new openings in the last 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $98k–$1030k (avg $233k).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer III, AI/ML, Google Cloud AI Software Engineer III on the Google Cloud AI Research team, focusing on implementing ML solutions, utilizing ML infrastructure, and contributing to model optimization and data processing. The role involves writing product/system development code, collaborating with peers, triaging issues, and debugging. Requires experience in Python/C++, and ML infrastructure such as model deployment, evaluation, optimization, and data processing. Experience with speech/audio or reinforcement learning is a plus. | Serve | 7 |
| Hardware Architecture Modeling Engineer, PhD, University Graduate This role focuses on developing architectural and micro-architectural models for next-generation TPUs (Tensor Processing Units) to enable quantitative analysis of performance and power. The engineer will contribute to Machine Learning workload characterization, benchmarking, and hardware-software co-design, collaborating with various teams to define TPU chip specifications and roadmaps for AI/ML hardware acceleration. |
| Serve |
| 7 |
| Software Engineer III, AI/ML Recommendations, Rankings, Predictions, YouTube Software Engineer III at Google working on AI/ML Recommendations, Rankings, and Predictions for YouTube. The role involves writing product/system code, collaborating with peers, contributing to documentation, triaging issues, and building/deploying recommendation systems models using ML infrastructure, with a focus on model optimization and data processing. Requires a Bachelor's degree, 2 years of Python/C++ experience, 1 year of experience building/deploying recommendation systems, and 1 year of ML infrastructure experience. | ShipData | 7 |
| Software Engineer, PhD, Early Career, 2026 Google is seeking a PhD Software Engineer with expertise in AI/ML and large-scale distributed systems to design, test, deploy, and maintain software solutions for AI and Infrastructure (AI2) organization. The role involves defining technical goals, developing scalable systems, applying research expertise to complex problems, and contributing to essential Google services and Cloud products. | Serve | 7 |
| Staff Software Engineer, AI/ML Recommendations, Rankings, Predictions, YouTube Staff Software Engineer at Google working on AI/ML for YouTube Recommendations, Rankings, and Predictions. The role involves designing, developing, and deploying large-scale software solutions, providing technical leadership, and optimizing ML infrastructure. Key responsibilities include leading the design and implementation of recommendation systems, optimizing ML infrastructure, and guiding model architecture development. Requires significant experience in building and deploying recommendation systems models in production and leading ML design and optimization. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Design Verification Engineer, PhD, Early Career This role focuses on the design and verification of AI/ML hardware accelerators (TPUs), involving architecture definition, performance modeling, RTL design, and hardware/software co-design. The engineer will work on optimizing ML workloads and developing efficient design verification strategies for next-generation TPUs, leveraging AI techniques for physical design convergence. | Serve | 7 |
| Software Engineering Manager II, AI/ML Recommendations, Rankings, Predictions, YouTube Software Engineering Manager II for AI/ML Recommendations, Rankings, and Predictions at YouTube. This role involves leading a team of engineers, setting team priorities, developing technical roadmaps, designing and implementing recommendation systems, optimizing ML infrastructure, and guiding model architecture development. Requires experience in software development, ML design, ML infrastructure optimization, building and deploying recommendation systems, and technical/people leadership. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Student Researcher, PhD, Winter/Summer 2026 Student Researcher (PhD) position at Google, focusing on exploratory research projects to advance scientific understanding and develop next-generation intelligent systems. The role involves participating in research to solve real-world, large-scale problems, with opportunities across various Google research teams. | Pretrain | 7 |
| Student Researcher, BS/MS, Winter/Summer 2026 Student Researcher Program at Google focusing on academic collaborations and scientific advancement in AI and other research areas. Students will work on exploratory projects to develop solutions for real-world, large-scale problems, potentially contributing to next-generation intelligent systems. | Pretrain | 7 |
| Student Researcher, BS/MS, Winter/Summer 2026 Student Researcher role at Google focused on participating in research projects to develop solutions for real-world, large-scale problems, advancing the state of the art in computing and building the next generation of intelligent systems. Projects are exploratory and drive scientific advancement across multiple research areas, utilizing the latest computer science techniques. | Pretrain | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML Recommendations, Rankings, Predictions, YouTube Senior Software Engineer focused on building and deploying recommendation systems models for YouTube, leveraging ML infrastructure and contributing to architecture design. This role involves coding, testing, debugging, and designing models for retrieval, prediction, ranking, and personalization. | ShipData | 7 |
| Software Engineering Manager II, Google Cloud Software Engineering Manager II for Google Cloud's AI and Infrastructure team, focusing on delivering AI and Infrastructure at scale. The role involves technical leadership, team management, setting priorities, developing roadmaps, and guiding system designs, with a focus on enabling advanced AI models and delivering computing power. | Serve | 7 |
| Software Engineer, PhD, Early Career, Campus, 2025 Start Software Engineer with a PhD, focusing on AI/ML infrastructure and systems within Google Cloud. The role involves writing product/system development code, participating in design reviews, reviewing code, contributing to documentation, triaging and debugging complex technical issues, and collaborating on design, analysis, and development across the stack. The focus is on building and scaling AI/ML capabilities on Google's frameworks and infrastructure, contributing to products used by billions. | Serve | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Early Careers, PhD, Cloud AI Software Engineer role focused on implementing and designing Search features, leveraging advanced GenAI capabilities and LLM concepts, with a focus on Kubernetes-based infrastructure for scalability and performance. | Serve | 7 |
| Silicon Architecture/Design Engineer, PhD, Early Career Silicon Architecture/Design Engineer focused on developing next-generation TPUs for AI/ML workloads. Responsibilities include workload characterization, architecture specification, power/performance modeling, RTL design, hardware/software codesign, and leveraging AI techniques for physical design. The role requires a PhD and experience with accelerator architectures and data center workloads. | Serve | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Systems Research, PhD, Early Career Google is seeking a Software Engineer for Systems Research with a PhD to explore emerging technologies and systems, design and build prototypes for data center and cloud environments including machine learning, and influence products by operating across research and engineering teams. | Serve | 7 |
