Staff Software Engineer, Fitbit Health, AI/ML

Google Inc.; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to develop advanced health coaching technologies leveraging AI/ML. The role involves leading project teams and innovative algorithm design, requiring extensive experience in software development and machine learning.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in software development, including 5 years in managing software products.
• 3 years in a technical leadership role with cross-functional project involvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of advanced algorithms for health coaching.
• Design and implement critical system components, vet design proposals, and assign tasks.

Skills

Software Development

Machine Learning Design

AI Optimization

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Fitbit Health, AI/ML

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
  
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 5 years of experience leading ML design and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• 5 years of experience leading ML design and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
• Passion for fitness/health, with an innovative mindset to work in a dynamic, fast-moving team.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Our focus in London is on building innovative next generation features to coach users to better health and well being. We are bringing together large quantities of data, extensive experience in mobile sensing algorithms, and generative AI to help our users derive meaning from the measurements we have and to offer them personalized coaching experiences.

We work at the intersection of product and research, which allows us to combine innovation with the ability to get large-scale impact on real users quickly. We have a varied set of skills in the team and organization leadership, alongside a track record of successfully delivering innovative products.

The Health Platforms and Devices team builds innovative products and services that help our users live longer, healthier lives. We bring together the best of Google technologies and AI, health behavior science, and user-centered design to help users organize the health and wellness data, get insight from it, and take action toward their health goals. We do this with a suite of apps, services, and health wearables. We aim to make consumer health more personal, proactive, and actionable.

Responsibilities

Lead the development of advanced sensor algorithms and an agentic framework to fuse them into an advanced health coach.

• Design and implement critical system components (both as an IC and through the team). Vet design proposals, assign and track tasks to milestones.
• Keep abreast of the latest in the AI world both to educate the team and to help steer the products.
• Build tools to support iteration and innovation. Help to establish processes to productionize the research work through collaboration with other teams.
• Demonstrateindividual contributor skills and an innovation mindset.

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