Senior Software Engineering Manager, Generative AI

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Geo team in Mountain View seeks a Software Engineering Manager to guide multiple engineers across large-scale projects. You will set strategy, influence product direction, and mentor engineers to optimize code and processes while managing cross-team initiatives.

The role emphasizes leadership, architecture, and collaboration across AI, NLP, and distributed systems, with a focus on scalable MAP-related products and platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience required.
• 8 years of experience with software development.
• 7 years leading technical project strategy, ML design, and optimizing ML infrastructure at scale.
• 5 years in a technical leadership role.
• 5 years in a people management or team leadership role.
• 2 years of GenAI techniques or related concepts (LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models).

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals.
• Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and provide feedback and coaching.
• Develop long-term technical goals and roadmaps within and beyond the team's scope.
• Oversee system designs within the broader area and review code to solve ambiguous problems.
• Review code and ensure best practices in style, accuracy, testability, and efficiency.

Skills

Software development

Technical leadership

People management

GenAI concepts

Project strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Engineering/CS

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development.
• 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and optimizing industry-scale ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 5 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
• 2 years of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or with GenAI-related concepts (language modeling, computer vision).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.

About the job:

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.
With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.
The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real world. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
• Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals. Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
• Develop the long-term technical goal and roadmap within, and often beyond, the scope of your teams. Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
• Oversee systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and review product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).