Senior Software Engineer - Search Intelligence and Machine Learning

Google India Pvt Ltd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Google India Pvt Ltd is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Search Intelligence, with deep expertise in ML design and ML infrastructure to build scalable search features for billions of users in India and globally. You will lead AI-enabled features, integrate generative AI capabilities, and drive architecture decisions across teams.

You will collaborate with AI researchers, product managers and software engineers to deliver high-impact, reliable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years in ML design and ML infrastructure.
• 5+ years in one or more ML domains (speech/audio, RL, ML infra).
• 5+ years of testing, launching software products, and 3+ years in software design/architecture.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Ideate, design and own varied technical tests in the Search Intelligence stack.
• Test status-quo and drive technical design decisions within your area of ownership.
• Be passionate about Search and solve problems with ambiguity.
• Discuss knowledge of AI tools in the hiring process.
• Collaborate with engineers, AI/ML researchers, and PMs to translate innovations into designs.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and efficiency of Search Intelligence features at Google scale.
• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across team goals and timelines.

Skills

ML design

ML infrastructure

Speech/Audio

Reinforcement learning

AI tooling / LLMs

Software design & architecture

Testing & release

Data processing & debugging

Generative AI integration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Engineering/CS

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Kubernetes

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Search Intelligence

Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience in software development. 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 with one or more of the following: speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field. 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture. Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Preferred qualifications:

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms. 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction. Experience with building or leveraging agentic frameworks and Large Language Model (LLM)-powered automation to enhance investigative velocity. Experience with building classifiers, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), ranking, and research.

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. In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information - any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Responsibilities

• Ideate, design and take ownership of varied technical tests in the Search Intelligence stack.
• Test status-quo and drive technical design decisions within your area of ownership and contribute to technical best practices.
• Be passionate about Search and have prior knowledge working in this area and solve problems with increased levels of ambiguity.
• Have AI fluency and be prepared to discuss your knowledge of AI tools in the hiring process.
• Collaborate closely with executive engineers, AI/ML researchers, and Product Managers to translate the innovations into concrete technical designs and implementations.
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of Search Intelligence features, operating at Google's scale and addressing the unique needs of the Indian market.
• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams goals, outcomes and timelines.

Experience Level Senior Level