Staff Software Engineer, Search Intelligence

Google; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 7,000,000 - 13,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Bengaluru office seeks software engineers to drive next-generation search technologies. You will work on ML, AI and large-scale systems with opportunities to switch teams and tackle diverse problems across the full stack.

Responsibilities include designing, testing and deploying software while collaborating with AI researchers and product managers to deliver impactful solutions at scale in India.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant field.
• 8 years of experience in software development with 5+ years in ML design/infrastructure.
• 5 years in ML-related areas such as speech/audio, RL, ML infrastructure, or similar.
• 5 years testing and launching software products with 3 years in design/architecture.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Responsibilities

• Ideate, design and own varied technical tests in the Search Intelligence stack.
• Collaborate with AI researchers, engineers and PMs to translate innovations into designs and implementations.
• Ensure reliability, scalability and efficiency of Search Intelligence features at Google's scale.
• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects and coordinate across teams.

Skills

ML design

ML infrastructure

LLM integration

Software testing

System design

RL experience

Speech/Audio

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

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.

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.