Senior Staff Software Engineer, Automotive AI

Google Google · Big Tech · Zürich, Switzerland

Senior Staff Software Engineer for Google's AI Automotive team, focusing on building a Gemini-native platform for automotive OEMs to develop, deploy, and maintain intelligent agents for AI-defined vehicles. The role involves designing and developing scalable server-side infrastructure, APIs, and backend systems using C++ and Go, with a strong emphasis on software design, architecture, and engineering excellence.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable server-side infrastructure for the Automotive AI Agent platform using C++ and Go.
  2. Build and evolve One Platform APIs, managing their lifecycle from experimental to General Availability, ensuring they meet Google Cloud standards.
  3. Contribute to the design and implementation of backend systems supporting platform features, including potential monetization mechanisms.
  4. Collaborate on API design, system architecture, and integration points with on-device components and other cloud services.
  5. Engage in technical discussions, code reviews, and contribute to the team's engineering excellence.

Skills

Required

  • C++
  • Go
  • software design
  • software architecture
  • testing
  • launching software products

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
  • technical leadership
  • complex, matrixed organization
  • cross-functional projects
  • cross-business projects

What the JD emphasized

  • Gemini-native platform
  • intelligent agents
  • AI-defined vehicle

Other signals

  • Gemini-native platform
  • intelligent agents
  • AI-defined vehicle