Senior Staff AI Engineer, Multimodal Agentic AI for Glasses

Google LLC; San Jose (CA); Presencial; USD 262.000 - 364.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Google LLC in California is seeking a Senior Staff AI Engineer to lead architecture and strategy for multimodal agentic AI on smart glasses. You will drive end-to-end design, real-time conversational experiences, and cross-organizational collaboration to push voice and vision integration.

This role demands extensive ML leadership, systems thinking, and a track record in deploying large-scale AI with Generative AI capabilities across complex, matrixed teams.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design and optimizing end-to-end Machine Learning (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• 5 years of experience with one or more of the following: Speech/audio, reinforcement learning, ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• Experience with Generative AI.

Responsabilidades

• Architect and scale multi-turn, goal-oriented agentic workflows for real-world task assistance.
• Serve as a primary technical leader driving the architecture, strategy, and execution of groundbreaking multimodal agentic AI solutions for smart glasses.
• Define the technical direction and lead cross-organizational efforts to architect and ship trusted, real-time conversational experiences that seamlessly blend voice, streaming vision, and physical-world context.
• Lead our most complex, ambiguous, and high-impact AI initiatives, taking foundational capabilities from early research and architectural definition through flagship production launches.
• Own the technical strategy, system architecture, and end-to-end quality across multiple core pillars, driving model and agent quality improvement through data strategy, evaluation frameworks, system prompting, Agent harness, to deliver an instant, natural, and immersive experience for users.

Conocimientos

Software development

Technical leadership

ML design

Generative AI

System architecture

Educación

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD in Engineering/CS

Descripción del empleo

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

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design and optimizing end-to-end Machine Learning (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• 5 years of experience with one or more of the following: Speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• Experience with Generative AI.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
• Experience with Multimodal Machine Learning.
• Experience with large-scale infrastructure.

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.

Our team is at the forefront of building the next generation of conversational AI. We are developing multimodal, agentic AI solutions for smart glasses to create a unique, proactive, and trusted multimodal experience. This technology delivers instant, natural conversational intelligence directly to the user's eye and ear, allowing them to navigate and interact with their physical world more immersively than ever.

As a Senior Staff AI Engineer, you will serve as a primary technical leader driving the architecture, strategy, and execution of groundbreaking multimodal agentic AI solutions for smart glasses. You will define the technical direction and lead cross-organizational efforts to architect and ship trusted, real-time conversational experiences that seamlessly blend voice, streaming vision, and physical-world context.

For decades, the computing revolution has reshaped our world driven by breakthroughs in compute, connectivity, mobile, and now, AI. Google's XR team is at the forefront of the next major leap - the convergence of AI and XR. This is more than just new devices - it's about reimagining how we interact with the world around us. We're building a future where lightweight XR devices like smart glasses and headsets pair with helpful AI to augment human intelligence, offering personalized, conversational, and contextually aware experiences.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale multi-turn, goal-oriented agentic workflows for real-world task assistance.
• Serve as a primary technical leader driving the architecture, strategy, and execution of groundbreaking multimodal agentic AI solutions for smart glasses.
• Define the technical direction and lead cross-organizational efforts to architect and ship trusted, real-time conversational experiences that seamlessly blend voice, streaming vision, and physical-world context.
• Lead our most complex, ambiguous, and high-impact AI initiatives, taking foundational capabilities from early research and architectural definition through flagship production launches.
• Own the technical strategy, system architecture, and end-to-end quality across multiple core pillars, driving model and agent quality improvement through data strategy, evaluation frameworks, system prompting, Agent harness, to deliver an instant, natural, and immersive experience for users.

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, nat

US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

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