AI/ML Software Engineering Manager, Home Conversational

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for AI/ML within the Google Home Conversational Experiences team in Mountain View. You will lead ML design, deploy hybrid AI systems, and drive the roadmap for the Gemini for Home platform.

You will manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, partner with researchers and data scientists, and help shape product strategy while delivering high-quality conversational experiences at scale.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years leading ML design and optimizing ML infrastructure.
• 5 years with one or more of: speech/audio, reinforcement learning, ML infrastructure, or related ML field.
• 3 years in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years in a people management or team leadership role.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

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 large language models with deterministic components to maximize conversational quality, safety, and operational reliability.
• Diagnose production quality gaps, reduce end-to-end system 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

ML design

ML infrastructure

Speech/Audio

Reinforcement Learning

Leadership

People management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for AI/ML within the Google Home Conversational Experiences team in Mountain View. You will lead ML design, deploy hybrid AI systems, and drive the roadmap for the Gemini for Home platform.

You will manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, partner with researchers and data scientists, and help shape product strategy while delivering high-quality conversational experiences at scale.