Principal Engineer, Ads DevAI Platform

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 307,000 - 427,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the Ads DevAI Platform. You will drive AI-powered optimizations, mentor engineers across teams, and shape the technical roadmap for scalable AI-enabled Ads infrastructure.

The role requires 15 years of engineering experience and a Bachelor's degree, with a preference for a Master's degree and proven leadership across large organizations. Equity and strong compensation are offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; 15 years of software engineering experience.
• Master's degree preferred; experience leading large organizations and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead the DevAI Platform infrastructure for Ads, ensuring scalability and ROI.
• Provide technical leadership across cross-functional Ads groups, aligning vision and execution.
• Drive AI-forward architecture and self-managing codebases with evaluator-driven development and context integration.
• Lead technical strategy for the DevAI platform and mentor AI engineers across Ads infrastructure teams.
• Collaborate with senior engineering leaders to influence roadmaps and Google Ads vision.

Skills

Technical leadership

Strategic thinking

Knowledge of Google Ads products

Big-picture thinking

Innovation track record

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or other relevant engineering discipline or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering

Job description

Principal Engineer, Ads DevAI Platform

Google – Mountain View, CA, USA – Director+

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or other relevant engineering discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of professional experience in engineering.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering.
• Experience providing technical leadership across a larger organization, including motivating others at all levels by creating a shared sense of vision and purpose.
• Knowledge of Google Ads products, the ecosystems our products and users exist in, and our competitors and their products.
• Ability to balance detailed, technical guidance with “big picture” strategy.
• Thought leadership to identify and design problems commensurate with PE scope and difficulty and a desire to solve hard engineering problems.
• A demonstrated track record of technical innovation within large, complex, and cross-functional engineering environments.

About the job

Users come first at Google. Nowhere is this more important than in our Advertising: we believe that ads and commercial information can be highly useful to our users, especially when that information is relevant to what our users wish to find or do. Advertisers worldwide use Google Ads to promote their products; publishers use AdSense to serve relevant ads on their website; and businesses around the world use our products (like Google Shopping, and Google Wallet) to support their online businesses and bring users into their offline stores. We are constantly innovating to deliver the most effective advertising and commerce opportunities of tomorrow.

The Ads DevAI Platform team enables Ads to leverage the power of LLMs to accelerate optimizations, infra migrations, resource efficiency and more. The team builds the infrastructure and marquee agents required to enable AI-powered acceleration for Ads engineering workflows.

The Ads Platform team is seeking a strong senior technical leader to design and accelerate Ads engineering workflows using AI.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

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

US: $307000 - $427000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the foundational DevAI infrastructure for Ads, ensuring extensibility, applicability, and maximum ROI across all business verticals and functions.
• Provide technical leadership and uber-TL oversight for cross-cutting Ads Internal AI projects, including marquee agents, AI-friendly infrastructure and strategic DevAI big bets.
• Drive the transition toward AI-forward architecture and self-managing codebases by enabling agentic evaluation-driven development, skills, and context integration.
• Lead the technical strategy and development for the DevAI platform and custom agents, while mentoring Business Account Managers (BAM) AI across Ads infrastructure organizations.
• Collaborate with uber-TLs across Ads PAGs, Core, and GDM to influence roadmaps, technical direction, and Google’s broader Buying platforms and Ads vision.

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