AI Agent Platform Engineering Manager

Google LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Mountain View, CA seeks an Software Engineering Manager for the Business AI Agent to lead a team of engineers, shape strategy, and oversee large-scale AI projects across diverse Google platforms. You will drive backend architecture, performance, and reliable AI pipelines while mentoring engineers and coordinating with cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes leadership in applied AI, low-latency systems, and automated evaluation, with opportunities to influence product strategy

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience coding in one or more general-purpose programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, C++, or Go) focused on backend system architecture.
• Experience building automated LLM evaluation pipelines, automated rating systems (AutoRaters), or defining LLM-specific reliability metrics (e.g., measuring grounding, helpfulness, safety, and hallucination/error reduction).
• Experience with backend, distributed systems, or AI/ML systems infrastructure.
• Experience managing software engineers, including performance management, mentoring, and team growth.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor a Software Engineering team, owning the roadmap and architecture for applied AI, low-latency scoring, and automated evaluation.
• Lead Knowledge Library and merchant control engineering, building advanced RAG integrations (PDF ingestion, auto-learning) for custom agent behavior.
• Oversee autonomous execution tooling and Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) integration to enable active user journeys (catalog lookups, universal carts, reservations).
• Advocate prompt tuning and loss diagnosis while scaling LLM-based AutoRater frameworks to reduce hallucinations and measure conversation factuality.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, UX, and core Google platform teams to define Ground Truth datasets, investigative dashboards, and model upgrade standards.

Skills

Backend systems

LLM evaluation

Team leadership

Distributed systems

Performance management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree or PhD in CS

3+ years matrixed organization experience

Tools

AutoRater frameworks

Agent orchestration tooling

RAG architectures

Knowledge library dashboards

Job description

Google LLC in Mountain View, CA seeks an Software Engineering Manager for the Business AI Agent to lead a team of engineers, shape strategy, and oversee large-scale AI projects across diverse Google platforms. You will drive backend architecture, performance, and reliable AI pipelines while mentoring engineers and coordinating with cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes leadership in applied AI, low-latency systems, and automated evaluation, with opportunities to influence product strategy