Senior Staff AI Engineer — Multimodal for Smart Glasses

Google LLC; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Job summary

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.

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, 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.

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.

Skills

Software development

Technical leadership

ML design

Generative AI

System architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD in Engineering/CS

Job description

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.