Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer - Health AI & Sensing

Google Inc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google London is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack, to lead large-scale health sensing initiatives and ML-powered features across device, mobile, and cloud platforms. You will guide technical direction, mentor engineers, and influence cross-team strategy in a fast-paced environment.

You will work on health-focused wearables with privacy and data quality at the forefront, tackling latency, energy efficiency, and reliability while collaborating with Research, UX, and Clinical

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience leading technical projects and setting technical direction.
• Experience with machine learning or signal processing on sensor or time-series data (e.g., PPG, accelerometer, IMU).
• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (preferred).
• Experience with wearables or physiological sensing (e.g., PPG, ECG, IMU).
• Experience with foundation models or large-scale ML on sensor/time-series data.
• Experience designing and serving ML systems across device, mobile, and cloud, including latency, battery, capacity planning.

Responsibilities

• Drive sensing-model strategy with Research that moves health detection from heuristic algorithms to foundation models.
• Define and own shared launch criteria with Research, covering accuracy, latency, battery, serving cost, reliability, and privacy.
• Build system health metrics, regression tests, and staged rollouts, plus pipelines that capture and transport raw wearable sensor data.
• Write design docs and code, lead system design across device, mobile, and backend, and decide where computation runs.
• Mentor engineers across sites, share new AI approaches, and align Product, UX, Research, and Clinical teams on sensing strategy.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

ML on sensor data

Wearables

Mentoring

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD (preferred)

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Cloud platforms

Job description

Google London is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack, to lead large-scale health sensing initiatives and ML-powered features across device, mobile, and cloud platforms. You will guide technical direction, mentor engineers, and influence cross-team strategy in a fast-paced environment.

You will work on health-focused wearables with privacy and data quality at the forefront, tackling latency, energy efficiency, and reliability while collaborating with Research, UX, and Clinical