Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML — Search Ecosystems

Google Inc.; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Inc. in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Search Ecosystems, AI/ML.

You will work on large-scale information retrieval systems, improving search infrastructure, ranking, and data quality across products. The role involves designing and implementing secure, scalable data ingestion pipelines (e.g., with Flume), optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation components, and providing technical leadership within a growing team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in C++ and Java.
• Experience in domains related to information retrieval, search infrastructure, ranking systems, data quality, or signal extraction for content evaluation.
• Experience with large-scale data analysis, building data pipelines (e.g., Flume), and applying statistical methods to solve problems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure, scalable data ingestion pipelines that enforce strict access controls and copyright compliance for premium, rights-protected content across all GenAI serving surfaces.
• Optimize large-scale Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) infrastructure, focusing on improving the latency, relevance, and computational efficiency of embedding generation and vector searches.
• Drive the end-to-end technical integration of the Expert Intelligence platform with flagship Google GenAI products (e.g., NotebookLM, Gemini Deep Research), utilizing Spanner to ensure low-latency and highly available serving.
• Develop and scale distributed batch and streaming processing pipelines (using tools like Flume) to continuously ingest, clean, and index terabytes of unstructured and semi-structured external publisher data.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers within a rapidly growing organization, guiding system architecture decisions and establishing best practices for LLM-backed infrastructure.

Skills

C++

Java

Information retrieval

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's or PhD

Tools

Flume

Job description

Google Inc. in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Search Ecosystems, AI/ML.

You will work on large-scale information retrieval systems, improving search infrastructure, ranking, and data quality across products. The role involves designing and implementing secure, scalable data ingestion pipelines (e.g., with Flume), optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation components, and providing technical leadership within a growing team.