Staff Software Engineer, Knowledge Catalog, AI

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +2

Staff Software Engineer role focused on empowering AI agents within Google Cloud's data ecosystems. The role involves tackling challenges in context engineering, metadata enrichment, search, personalization, conversational analytics, and catalog infrastructure, with a focus on rapid prototyping, experimentation, and integration with products like Gemini Enterprise. The engineer will drive technical goals, influence across boundaries, shape strategy, and lead junior engineers, with a minimum of 8 years of software development experience and 5 years of experience in ML infrastructure and GenAI techniques.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive Technical Goal: Generate critical, innovative ideas and own the architectural direction for highly ambiguous problem spaces. You will maintain an approach to coding and system design while setting the standard for engineering excellence.
  2. Influence Across Boundaries: Act as a technical multiplier. Navigate complex organizational structures to influence technical decisions and align outcomes across various Google Cloud products and distinct engineering organizations.
  3. Shape Strategy and Product: Apply strong product-thinking to technical challenges. Partner closely with Engineering and Product Managers to define the long-term roadmap and ensure our technical capabilities align with customer and business needs.
  4. Lead and Elevate: Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and leadership to junior engineers across the team, elevating the overall capability and velocity of the organization.

Skills

Required

  • software development
  • software design and architecture
  • ML design
  • ML infrastructure optimization
  • model deployment
  • model evaluation
  • data processing
  • debugging
  • fine tuning
  • GenAI techniques
  • LLMs
  • Multi-Modal
  • Large Vision Models
  • language modeling
  • computer vision

Nice to have

  • technical leadership
  • data warehouses
  • big data
  • SQL
  • data governance

What the JD emphasized

  • highly ambiguous, cutting-edge challenges
  • rapid prototyping and experimentation
  • shipping 0-to-1 AI applications
  • holistic understanding of product, quality, and infra

Other signals

  • empower AI agents
  • context engineering
  • metadata enrichment
  • search
  • personalization
  • conversational analytics
  • large scale catalog infrastructure
  • rapid prototyping and experimentation
  • integrations with flagship products like Gemini Enterprise
  • working directly with the customers to validate ideas
  • iterate rapidly
  • shape the future of AI-driven data
  • shipping 0-to-1 AI applications