Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Paid holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a software engineer in Kirkland, WA to help build AI-native, scalable systems that impact billions of users. You will work on projects across Google's expansive stack, exploring AI-driven research and developing robust infrastructure.

The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and tackling complex challenges, with opportunities to move between teams as the organization grows. US-based employees receive a comprehensive benefits package, including health/dental/vision, 401(k)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., C++, Go or Java).
• 3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining infrastructure.
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) models or machine learning algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Learn new technical domains by combining a deep knowledge of Google's expansive software stack with AI-assisted research to quickly propose and implement innovative technical solutions.
• Build scalable AI-powered solutions horizontally across Google while delving deeply into external systems to proactively assist other teams with their most complex challenges.
• Help the team strategically identify game-changing problem spaces, dynamic pursuing and contributing proposals for opportunities that maximize our overall impact.
• Contribute to a collaborative, ambitious culture that confidently tackles the impossible and constantly questions the strict technical boundaries.
• Guide junior engineers and lead focused strike teams by setting clear technical direction, providing vital support to ensure both their rapid professional growth and overall outcome success.

Skills

C++, Go, Java

ML infrastructure

AI models / ML algorithms

Infrastructure design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Jose, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., C++, Go or Java).
• 3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining infrastructure.
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) models or machine learning algorithms.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience applying AI to solve software engineering problems, with a background or strong interest in agentic software development (LLMs, code generation, etc.).
• Experience in driving significant operational efficiencies (e.g., compute, storage, latency) and structural software improvements (e.g., code quality, testing speed) in production, brown-field systems.
• Experience designing, building, maintaining, optimizing, and debugging large-scale, high-performance distributed production systems (e.g., replicated state machines, database systems, networking, or storage).

About The Job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

This is an opportunity to participate in a fast-moving, high-impact AI-native team, and play a part in defining how Google leverages AI to deliver qualitatively different engineering outcomes compared to pre-AI ways of working.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google's flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google's products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

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

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Learn new technical domains by combining a deep knowledge of Google's expansive software stack with AI-assisted research to quickly propose and implement innovative technical solutions.
• Build scalable AI-powered solutions horizontally across Google while delving deeply into external systems to proactively assist other teams with their most complex challenges.
• Help the team strategically identify game-changing problem spaces, dynamic pursuing and contributing proposals for opportunities that maximize our overall impact.
• Contribute to a collaborative, ambitious culture that confidently tackles the impossible and constantly questions the strict technical boundaries.
• Guide junior engineers and lead focused strike teams by setting clear technical direction, providing vital support to ensure both their rapid professional growth and overall outcome success.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.