Staff Software Engineer, AI Garage, AI/ML

Google; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,200,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Hyderabad-based software engineers are developing AI-powered HR technology and agentic AI systems. You will work on AI/ML platforms, scale solutions, and collaborate across product, engineering and business teams to meet Google's needs.

The role emphasizes leadership, ownership of priorities, and delivering results in a fast-paced environment. The team prioritizes privacy and legal compliance while pushing the boundaries of AI, designing, testing, deploying, and maintaining software

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 1 year of experience with Generative AI, Agentic AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), AI evaluations, training, or models.

Responsibilities

• Engineering technical lead for the AI Garage team responsible for developing AI/ML systems and Agentic solutions in HR domain.
• Drive engineering excellence for the AI Garage team.
• Provide technical leadership in regards to immediate and complex technical problems to leads of associated teams.
• Influence, design, and build scalable Agentic systems in HR domain. Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in Agentic and AI/ML engineering.
• Collaborate with AI Garage Leads (e.g., Eng Managers, Product Managers and AI strategists) and stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into technical solutions.

Skills

Programming languages

Software development

Generative AI / LLMs

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 1 year of experience with Generative AI, Agentic AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), AI evaluations, training, or models.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience collaborating in a globally distributed product and engineering team.
• Experience implementing and customizing structural execution patterns like ReAct (Reason + Act), Tree of Thoughts (ToT), and Plan-and-Solve loops, giving models the cognitive scaffolding to break down vague goals into deterministic DAGs (Directed Acyclic Graphs).
• Excellent communication skills across engineering, product and business domains.

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.

Welcome to the AI Garage, the innovation engine within Google’s POp’s Engineering. We solve complex HR technology challenges by deploying advanced Agentic AI and ML into critical user experiences. Using an agile "garage model," our multi-disciplinary squads in India balance rapid innovation with engineering excellence to scale autonomous solutions. We are committed to building robust, empathetic, and responsible AI that adheres to strict privacy and legal standards.

At Corp Eng, we build world-leading business solutions that scale a more helpful Google for everyone. As Google’s IT organization, we provide end-to-end solutions for organizations across Google. We deliver the right tools, platforms, and experiences for all Googlers as they create more helpful products and services for everyone. In the simplest terms, we are Google for Googlers.

Responsibilities

• Engineering technical lead for the AI Garage team which responsible for developing AI/ML systems and Agentic solutions in HR domain.
• Drive engineering excellence for the AI Garage team.
• Provide technical leadership in regards to immediate and complex technical problems to leads of associated teams.
• Influence, design, and build scalable Agentic systems in HR domain. Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in Agentic and AI/ML engineering.
• Collaborate with AI Garage Leads (e.g., Eng Managers, Product Managers and AI strategists) and stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into technical solutions.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .