Senior Software Engineer, Generative Ai, Learnx

Google Google · Big Tech · Zagreb, Croatia

Senior Software Engineer focused on Generative AI for learning products within Google Search and Lens. Responsibilities include developing AI features, fine-tuning models, optimizing prompts, evaluating performance, and launching AI-driven features. Requires experience in AI/ML engineering, software development, and technical leadership.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive design and implementation of AI features for education in Search Web and Lens.
  2. Analyze model performance, diagnose loss patterns, and ensure high quality of AI educational user journeys.
  3. Drive cross-team collaboration with product and surface engineering teams, participate in product initiation, plan timelines and ensure engineering delivery.
  4. Propose improvements of the team's processes, practices and ensure technical excellence.
  5. Demonstrate growth mindset, self-reflection, mentor other engineers on the team and share expertise in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) best practices and model development.

Skills

Required

  • software development
  • AI/ML engineering
  • technical leadership
  • software design
  • architecture
  • team execution

Nice to have

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field
  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • building/training AI models
  • backend data infrastructure
  • data engineering
  • developing, deploying, managing, and maintaining machine learning models and infrastructure
  • data engineering practices and principles
  • collaboration
  • cross-functional communication

What the JD emphasized

  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
  • 3 years of experience in AI/ML related engineering
  • 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role with software design and architecture; leading tech design and driving team execution

Other signals

  • developing AI-motivated capabilities and features for learning products
  • creating a training dataset, fine-tuning, prompt optimization, evaluating model performance, detecting headroom, launching AI-motivated features
  • Analyze model performance, diagnose loss patterns, and ensure high quality of AI educational user journeys
  • Experience in machine learning, building/training AI models, backend data infrastructure or data engineering
  • Experience in developing, deploying, managing, and maintaining machine learning models and infrastructure