AI/ML Software Engineering Manager, Conversational Home

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead the Gemini for Home conversational experiences team. You will shape architecture, manage multiple engineering teams across locations, and deliver large-scale, cross-functional AI projects with emphasis on performance, safety and reliability.

You will guide product strategy, partner with researchers and data scientists, and help grow engineers while driving a high-performance culture in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience leading ML design and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• 5 years of experience with one or more ML areas: speech/audio, RL, ML infrastructure, or related field.
• 3 years in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years in a people management or team leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical architecture and roadmap for the conversational experiences platform powering Gemini for Home across task-oriented and open-domain dialogue systems.
• Architect and deploy hybrid AI systems combining generative LLMs with deterministic components to maximize conversational quality, safety, and operational reliability.
• Diagnose production quality gaps, reduce end-to-end latency, and resolve complex issues across context ingestion, multimodal inputs, memory, and dialogue execution pipelines.
• Partner cross-functionally with research scientists, product managers, and data scientists to evaluate algorithms, design scalable data infrastructure, and launch user-facing features.
• Lead and grow an engineering team, setting clear technical direction, guiding individual career development, and fostering a high-performance culture.

Skills

Software development

ML design

ML infrastructure

Speech/Audio/LLMs

Technical leadership

People management

Education

Bachelor's degree / equivalent practical experience

Master's degree / PhD (preferred)

Job description

Google is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead the Gemini for Home conversational experiences team. You will shape architecture, manage multiple engineering teams across locations, and deliver large-scale, cross-functional AI projects with emphasis on performance, safety and reliability.

You will guide product strategy, partner with researchers and data scientists, and help grow engineers while driving a high-performance culture in a fast-paced environment.