Senior ML Engineer — Scalable AI/ML Systems Lead

Google LLC; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and disb

401(k) with company match

Paid time off: 20 days/year + 13 paidH

Sick time: 40 hours/year (+ Seattle 69

Maternity leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave: 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google LLC in the United States is seeking a software engineer with ML expertise to design, deploy, and optimize large-scale ML systems. You will lead architecture decisions, build scalable data pipelines, and collaborate with product managers and data scientists to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ML development, production readiness, and impactful contributions across Google’s core platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in Python or C++.
• 3 years of experience with speech/audio, reinforcement learning, ML infrastructure, or related ML field.
• 3 years of experience with end-to-end Machine Learning (model deployment, evaluation, data processing, debugging).
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of software design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in designing, developing, testing, and deploying robust, production-grade ML models and infrastructure.
• Drive the architecture, implementation, and maintenance of scalable data pipelines, feature stores, and automated training/evaluation workflows.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and other engineering teams to translate high-level requirements into concrete technical solutions.
• Oversee monitoring, benchmarking, and optimization of production ML models for latency, throughput, and cost-efficiency.

Skills

Python

C++

Speech/audio ML

Reinforcement learning

ML infrastructure

Software design and architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related field

Job description

Google LLC in the United States is seeking a software engineer with ML expertise to design, deploy, and optimize large-scale ML systems. You will lead architecture decisions, build scalable data pipelines, and collaborate with product managers and data scientists to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ML development, production readiness, and impactful contributions across Google’s core platforms.