Principal Engineer, Agentic Storytelling at Scale

Google; Ionia (NY); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

25% bonus target

Job summary

Google Photos engineers are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead agentic storytelling efforts across Memories and Video Editing, applying AI and GenMedia to help users reminisce, curate, and share moments at scale.

You will own multi-year technical goals, drive architecture, collaborate with cross‑functional teams, and mentor engineers to ship high‑impact features in a fast‑growing product.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year technical goal and scalable architecture for agentic storytelling in Photos.
• Architect and develop conversational and agentic capabilities leveraging GenMedia and LLMs.
• Partner with engineering leads across Photos to build unified curation, retrieval, and editing capabilities.
• Pioneer the use of AI to accelerate development; coach the team on agentic workflows.

Skills

C++

System design

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD in Engineering/CS

Tools

GenMedia

Large Language Models (LLMs)

Job description

Google Photos engineers are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead agentic storytelling efforts across Memories and Video Editing, applying AI and GenMedia to help users reminisce, curate, and share moments at scale.

You will own multi-year technical goals, drive architecture, collaborate with cross‑functional teams, and mentor engineers to ship high‑impact features in a fast‑growing product.