Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity, Core Developer

Google; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Core Developer team to advance the RSI self-improvement strategy and autonomous code fixes at scale. You will work on continuous evaluation loops and AI agent pipelines that learn from past execution to improve system quality and reduce manual overhead.

The role emphasizes leadership, strong coding ability, and the design of telemetry and evaluation loops for production systems within Google's expansive infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of software development in one or more languages.
• Experience with AI, software architecture, and evaluations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with PM and teams to drive engineering strategy and RSI infra.
• Build loops to evaluate and improve AI agent execution.
• Equip core engine to diagnose runtime failures and auto-fix code.
• Analyze instructions to create self-improving loops.
• Streamline AI capabilities, evaluation methods, and quality climbing.

Skills

Software development

AI experience

Software architecture

Evaluations

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's or PhD preferred

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity, Core Developer

Location: San Jose, CA, USA

Experience Level: Mid

Mid Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• Experience with artificial intelligence, software architecture, and evaluations.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience building self-improving systems, internal tools, or AI measurement pipelines.
• Demonstrated ability to drive a technical roadmap and lead a project independently.
• Ability to design telemetry and evaluation loops (precision/recall backtesting, confusion matrices) for production systems.
• Strong coding and code review skills.

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.

We are building the future of autonomous work management and AI agents to assist our teams and partners at scale. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will join a team driving our agentic recursive self-improvement (RSI) strategy.

As part of our AI Agent Fleet, you will directly drive our self-improvement architecture, focusing on continuous execution path analysis, automated evaluation, and autonomous codebase fixes. Your work will reduce administrative overhead in product development by enabling our agentic systems to autonomously learn from past execution to fix their own codebase and improve overall system quality.

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 Salary

$174,000 - $252,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Partner with PM and other team members to drive the engineering strategy and roadmap for Work Management agents continuous quality and Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) infrastructure.
• Build continuous quality improving loops to evaluate and improve AI agent execution.
• Equip the core engine harness to diagnose runtime failures and autonomously author code changes to fix its own codebase.
• Analyze team provided instruction and create self-improving loops based on evolving team activity.
• Work with the engineering team to streamline AI capabilities, evaluation methods, and quality climbing.

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Locations

San Jose, CA, USA

Experience Level

Mid

Mid Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.