Senior Staff ML & Cloud Systems Engineer

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Paid holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a highly experienced software engineer to advance ML frameworks and cloud-based AI systems. You will design, build, test, deploy, and maintain scalable software, leading projects across ML infrastructure and deployment for large-scale models.

Strong background in Python, ML architectures, and cloud platforms (GCP/GKE) is essential, with leadership experience shaping technical direction and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development (e.g., Python).
• 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and working with ML infrastructure (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.

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver ML frameworks to perform training at LLMS and stable diffusion models for Google Cloud customers.
• Design and implement AI frameworks software for ML workloads in the cloud that enables models for language modeling, stable diffusion, rankings and recommendations, etc.
• Identify and resolve issues in software, performance, and topology.
• Work closely with software engineers, product managers and other engineering teams to get high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software.

Skills

Python

ML design

ML infrastructure

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms (GCP)

PyTorch / JAX

Leadership

Model deployment

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering/CS (preferred)

Tools

GCP

GKE

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

Google is seeking a highly experienced software engineer to advance ML frameworks and cloud-based AI systems. You will design, build, test, deploy, and maintain scalable software, leading projects across ML infrastructure and deployment for large-scale models.

Strong background in Python, ML architectures, and cloud platforms (GCP/GKE) is essential, with leadership experience shaping technical direction and cross-team collaboration.