Senior Software Engineer III — GenAI & ML Systems

Google Inc.; Zürich; On-site; CHF 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is hiring a Software Engineer III for Centerpiece in a mid-level role. This position emphasizes building scalable GenAI-enabled features and improving infrastructure while mentoring junior team members.

You will work on Centerpiece, shaping how content is distilled for Google's search and AI pipelines, with opportunities to broaden impact across messaging and data systems globally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 1 year of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
• Experience with state of the art GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or GenAI-related concepts.

Responsibilities

• Launch new versions of Centerpiece by improving the (prompted) Professor model, applying our Computer Use Agent, and training better student models.
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency,)
• Improve the tooling and infra.
• Maintain or ablate other systems that provide similar data, re-directing the clients to Centerpiece.
• Implement GenAI solutions, utilize ML infrastructure, and contribute to data preparation, optimization, and performance enhancements.

Skills

Software development

GenAI techniques

ML infrastructure

LLMs

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD (preferred)

Job description

Google is hiring a Software Engineer III for Centerpiece in a mid-level role. This position emphasizes building scalable GenAI-enabled features and improving infrastructure while mentoring junior team members.

You will work on Centerpiece, shaping how content is distilled for Google's search and AI pipelines, with opportunities to broaden impact across messaging and data systems globally.