Principal AI Systems Engineer, Hyper-scale Infra

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

Job summary

Google Inc. is seeking a Principal/Distinguished Engineer for AI Capacity Delivery to bridge hardware design with intelligent software automation.

You will architect a scalable control plane to manage, validate, and initialize Google’s AI fleet, including TPUs and GPUs, delivering high availability and cost efficiency. Lead the technical strategy for bare-metal systems, write efficient system software for fleet initialization, and collaborate with TPU/silicon teams to ensure reliability at

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in CS/CE or related field.
• 15 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with low-level systems software or virtualization/bare-metal environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy ML-driven monitoring and telemetry for validation.
• Automate fleet initialization and rapid bring-up of hardware.
• Influence long-term hardware-software co-design roadmaps with TPU, silicon, and distributed-systems teams.

Skills

Systems programming

Distributed systems

Low-level software

Kernel interfaces

Education

Bachelor's degree required

Master's or PhD preferred

Job description

Google Inc. is seeking a Principal/Distinguished Engineer for AI Capacity Delivery to bridge hardware design with intelligent software automation.

You will architect a scalable control plane to manage, validate, and initialize Google’s AI fleet, including TPUs and GPUs, delivering high availability and cost efficiency. Lead the technical strategy for bare-metal systems, write efficient system software for fleet initialization, and collaborate with TPU/silicon teams to ensure reliability at