Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Innovation

Google Google · Big Tech · Mountain View, CA +1

Senior Staff Software Engineer role focused on AI Innovation, providing technical oversight, mentorship, and strategy for AI and Infrastructure teams at Google. The role involves integrating generative AI tools and LLM interfaces into workflows, contributing to the development of AI models and platforms, and ensuring smooth project transitions. Requires strong programming, design, and architecture experience, with a focus on technical leadership and execution.

What you'd actually do

  1. Offer technical oversight and direction across the portfolio and projects. Engage with teams on technical issues, including design reviews, architecture choices, code contributions, and debugging.
  2. Mentor and coach project teams, promoting good engineering practices and improving the technical quality of projects. Define, refine, and help implement practices and processes for technical execution and review within the iteration models.
  3. Develop and promote a technical strategy to increase the success rate and impact of the Innovation Accelerator programs.
  4. Contribute to defining and implementing the project graduation process, working to ensure smooth transitions of projects to sponsoring teams.
  5. Collaborate with Technical Leads/Managers, Product Managers, and other stakeholders to grow the scope and impact of the program.

Skills

Required

  • programming in C++
  • design and architecture
  • testing/launching software products
  • integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows

Nice to have

  • data structures/algorithms
  • technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction
  • working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects

What the JD emphasized

  • integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows

Other signals

  • integrating generative AI tools
  • LLM interfaces
  • technical oversight
  • technical strategy
  • technical leadership