Senior AI Security Architect — Fraud & Abuse

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and long

Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match

Paid Time Off: 20 days

Sick Time: 40 hours/year

Maternity Leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

Holidays: 13 paid days

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead AI-enabled fraud and abuse security initiatives at scale across Google Cloud. You will guide architectural decisions, mentor teams, and shape the technical roadmap for secure, scalable AI defenses.

This role emphasizes AI/ML infrastructure, large-scale distributed systems, and collaboration with security and engineering leadership to deliver robust protections for Google's cloud platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, C++, Java).
• 5 years of experience designing, building, and testing large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure services.
• 1 year of experience with AI/ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
• Experience leading project teams, defining technical roadmaps, and setting engineering standards.
• Experience in designing and evaluating AI-assisted tools or automation workflows.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale robust, secure platforms that automate security checks across Google Cloud's developer pipeline and production systems.
• Design, optimize, and evaluate AI-driven security capabilities, leading the identification of AI opportunities across fraud and abuse engineering including direct coding and model architecture.
• Establish engineering and security standards for large-scale distributed systems, ensuring robust end-to-end security.
• Analyze and distill complex technical and security data to drive key organizational decisions and roadmap prioritization.
• Provide technical leadership for multiple teams, vet system designs, and mentor executive engineers to help them grow into technical leaders in AI and security.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

AI/ML infrastructure

Project leadership

AI-assisted tools design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Job description

Google is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead AI-enabled fraud and abuse security initiatives at scale across Google Cloud. You will guide architectural decisions, mentor teams, and shape the technical roadmap for secure, scalable AI defenses.

This role emphasizes AI/ML infrastructure, large-scale distributed systems, and collaboration with security and engineering leadership to deliver robust protections for Google's cloud platform.