Senior Staff Software Engineer – Agentic Storytelling (GenAI)

Google; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Bonus potential

Job summary

Google is seeking a software engineer to lead agentic storytelling initiatives within the Photos team. This role focuses on developing scalable architectures, integrating curation, retrieval, and story-generation systems, and advancing AI capabilities using GenMedia and latest LLMs.

You will partner with cross-functional teams across Photos and Gemini, shaping product experiences that help users reminisce and create stories at scale, with opportunities to influence architecture and strategy in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year technical goal and scalable architecture for agentic storytelling in Photos. Lead the technical strategy connecting curation, retrieval, and story generation systems with the Photos in-app agent and Gemini.
• Architect and develop conversational and agentic capabilities that leverage GenMedia and the latest LLMs to help users reminisce, curate, and create stories. Establish best practices for agentic systems, focusing on multi-turn orchestration, model evaluation, inference latency, and technical design at massive scale.
• Partner with engineering leads across Photos to build unified curation, retrieval, and editing capabilities, and work closely with research partners to integrate the latest generative models.
• Pioneer the use of AI to accelerate development; coach the team on agentic workflows and emerging practices to multiply engineering output and impact.

Skills

C++ programming

Design and architecture

Testing and launching

Data structures & algorithms

Technical leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master’s or PhD in Engineering/CS

Job description

Google is seeking a software engineer to lead agentic storytelling initiatives within the Photos team. This role focuses on developing scalable architectures, integrating curation, retrieval, and story-generation systems, and advancing AI capabilities using GenMedia and latest LLMs.

You will partner with cross-functional teams across Photos and Gemini, shaping product experiences that help users reminisce and create stories at scale, with opportunities to influence architecture and strategy in a