Staff Software Engineer, Generative AI, Applied Innovation Factory

Google Inc.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in London seeks a Staff Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI. The ideal candidate will have substantial software development experience and knowledge of machine learning. You will work on innovative solutions in Cloud technologies, collaborating with teams to drive projects that leverage cutting-edge AI technologies.

Benefits

Comprehensive health insurance

Opportunity for career development

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience in ML design and infrastructure.
• Experience in technical leadership and project management.

Responsibilities

• Drive the creation and execution of experiments across ML domains.
• Partner with GCP product teams to identify applications of AI.
• Contribute to building a positive team culture focused on innovation.

Skills

Software development experience

Data structures and algorithms

Machine learning experience

Generative AI

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD in relevant field

Tools

Python

Java

C++

Go

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Generative AI, Applied Innovation Factory

Google London, UK

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• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development and with data structures/algorithms in either (C, C++, Python, Java or Go).
• 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• 5 years of experience designing, training, and evaluating machine learning models.
• Experience using generative AI, to solve real-world issues.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• Ability to guide the work of others.
• Ability to take an issue and reduce it to a core experiment to prove or disprove a hypothesis.
• Ability to empathize with customers needs to generate solutions.

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.

We are a team of experienced engineers and technologists working directly with Cloud leadership. Our mission is to foster market-disrupting collaborative innovation between Google and the world's ambitious organizations. We focus on complex technical tests with Cloud’s most important customers, delivering collaborative and practical solutions.

In this role, you will be running an incubation program designed to drive Cloud innovation through joint experimentation. You will partner with other engineering teams and key customers to build technology that pushes the boundaries of what's possible with real-world applications and open to impact in any area of technology, provided it aligns with the needs of Cloud customers.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Drive the creation and execution of experiments across machine learning domains.
• Assess technical tests and develop practical, testable solutions.
• Partner with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) product and engineering teams, Google Research, and GCP customers to identify and implement real-world applications of cutting-edge generative AI and machine learning technologies.
• Contribute to building a positive team culture that emphasizes teamwork, innovation, and collaboration including playing a key role in shaping and executing the team's tactical goal.
• Write product or system development code and participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.