Senior Software Engineer, GenAI & AI/ML for Search (Equity)

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

Job summary

Google Mountain View, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for AI/ML GenAI in Search. You will work on next-generation search systems, addressing complex engineering challenges and contributing across the stack—from data storage to user-facing features.

The role requires strong Python or C++ coding, ML infrastructure experience, and GenAI knowledge. In-person interviews are common, and leadership is valued for team growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience programming in Python or C++.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
• 1 year of experience with state of the art GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or with GenAI-related concepts (language modeling, computer vision).

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Design and implement GenAI solutions, leverage ML infrastructure, and evaluate tradeoffs between different techniques and their application domains.

Skills

Python

C++

ML infra

GenAI concepts

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s or PhD in CS

Job description

Google Mountain View, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for AI/ML GenAI in Search. You will work on next-generation search systems, addressing complex engineering challenges and contributing across the stack—from data storage to user-facing features.

The role requires strong Python or C++ coding, ML infrastructure experience, and GenAI knowledge. In-person interviews are common, and leadership is valued for team growth.