Engineering Manager, AI/ML Training Infra

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

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Job summary

Google in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing SWE team focused on scheduling features for training and inference across Alphabet. You will align priorities, guide architectural decisions, and contribute to product roadmaps with cross-functional partners.

You will collaborate with leadership and engineering teams across Compute infrastructure, SRE, Scheduling, and other stakeholders to drive long-term architectural health while delivering immediate

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 5 years in ML design and ML infrastructure optimization (deployment, evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• 3 years in technical leadership and 2 years in people management.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate team priorities aligned with organizational goals.
• Provide performance feedback, coaching, and development planning to engineers.
• Develop mid-term technical vision and roadmap for multiple teams.
• Lead system designs and contribute code to solve complex problems.
• Guide ML infrastructure initiatives and data processing strategies.

Skills

Software development leadership

ML infrastructure design

Team leadership

Project roadmap planning

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD (preferred)

Job description

Minimum 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 of the following: speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), or specialization in another ML field.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
• Experience with distributed systems and have a passion for building reliability, scalable and efficient infrastructure.

About the job:

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

In this role, you will lead and manage a high-performing team of Software Engineers (SWEs) focused on the design, implementation, and launch of critical scheduling features supporting training and inference across Alphabet. You will support key internal customers and products including DeepMind (DM), Google Search, YouTube, Ads, and Waymo while partnering closely with leadership and engineering teams across Compute infrastructure, SRE, Scheduling, XManager, Uniserve, and other key infrastructure stakeholders to drive aligned technical roadmaps. Additionally, you will shape the technical direction for next-generation scheduling infrastructure, balancing long-term architectural health with immediate business delivery needs.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
• Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals. Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
• Develop the mid-term technical vision and roadmap within the scope of your often multiple teams. Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
• Design, guide and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
• Lead the design and implementation of solutions in specialized ML areas, optimize ML infrastructure, and guide the development of model optimization and data processing strategies.