Engineering Manager, Google AI Compute

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

Job summary

Google LLC in Mountain View, CA, is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Google AI Compute initiative. You will manage multiple engineering teams, set project goals, contribute to product strategy, and help develop your team while delivering large-scale AI compute initiatives.

The role emphasizes technical leadership across AI, distributed systems, and data infrastructure, with a focus on scale, reliability, and cross-functional collaboration across product, marketing, and data science teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 3 years in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years in people management or team leadership.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers and guide project goals.
• Define product strategy and oversee deployment of AI compute platform.
• Collaborate across product, engineering, data science, and marketing.
• Ensure scalable, reliable infrastructure for AI workloads.

Skills

Leadership

Software development

Team management

AI integration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree in CS or related field

PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Java

Spanner

ML inference

Job description

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• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in software development.
  
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
  
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and software architecture.
  
• Experience with database systems such as Spanner.
  
• Experience programming in Java and working with ML inference.

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.

Google One (G1) is Google's membership for personal cloud storage and Google's cutting-edge AI features. G1 is one of Google's fastest growing subscriptions, with over 150 million subscribers. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a high-impact team, shaping the future of our subscriber experiences, premium features and business growth initiatives.

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

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.

Google One (G1) is Google's membership for personal cloud storage and Google's cutting-edge AI features. G1 is one of Google's fastest growing subscriptions, with over 150 million subscribers. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a high-impact team, shaping the future of our subscriber experiences, premium features and business growth initiatives.

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 .

• Architect and evolve the platform’s APIs and core runtime capabilities to support AI usage flows for products like Gemini and Antigravity.
  
• Scale infrastructure to maintain availability, sub-millisecond validation latencies, and absolute transactional accuracy at extreme scale.
  
• Lead, grow, and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-velocity engineering culture.
  
• Define and enforce standards for code quality, testing, monitoring, and deep observability across all services on the critical path.
  
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, marketing, and data science teams to identify and prioritize growth opportunities.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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