Principal AI Infrastructure Architect

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 364,000 - 505,000; Full time

Job summary

Google seeks a Principal/ Distinguished Engineer for AI Capacity Delivery in Sunnyvale to bridge hardware design and intelligent software automation. You will architect the control plane that manages Google’s next-generation AI fleet (TPUs/GPUs) and deliver highly available data-center infrastructure at scale.

You will apply modern ML platforms to analyze fleet behavior, predict anomalies, and configure hardware, guiding engineers to write optimized testing software for reliability and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/CE or related field.
• 15 years of professional software engineering experience focusing on systems programming, distributed systems or infrastructure orchestration.
• Experience developing low-level systems software interfacing with physical infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead and architect high-performance software control planes for bare-metal systems and distributed data center environments.
• Design self-training ML-driven monitoring and telemetry systems for automated validation.
• Develop software to automate fleet initialization and production readiness.

Skills

Systems programming

Distributed systems

High-performance infrastructure

Bare-metal interfaces

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Hypervisors

Hardware abstraction layers

Custom kernels

Job description

Google seeks a Principal/ Distinguished Engineer for AI Capacity Delivery in Sunnyvale to bridge hardware design and intelligent software automation. You will architect the control plane that manages Google’s next-generation AI fleet (TPUs/GPUs) and deliver highly available data-center infrastructure at scale.

You will apply modern ML platforms to analyze fleet behavior, predict anomalies, and configure hardware, guiding engineers to write optimized testing software for reliability and