Senior Staff Software Engineer, Regulatory Lifecycle

Google; New York (NY); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Google is seeking a Technical Lead for the regulatory lifecycle engineering team to architect and guide AI-first solutions within a unified compliance platform. You will merge legacy systems, pioneer workflows for legal text analysis, and ensure enterprise compliance.

Lead engineers across legal, compliance, engineering, and product to drive consensus and execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• Experience with system architecture, data modeling, distributed systems, and leading large-scale software engineering projects.
• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field preferred.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 5 years in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• Experience building and deploying LLM-based applications, multi-agent systems, or agentic workflows.
• Experience in GRC domain or tools for legal/compliance users.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural consolidation of existing compliance systems, ensuring high availability and data integrity.
• Drive the development of new AI capabilities, including automated requirement mapping and legal assessment drafting, while managing AI risk.
• Design and orchestrate multi-agent systems for complex tasks like document decomposition and metadata extraction.
• Establish evaluation frameworks and service level objectives for AI models and workflows.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate ambiguous business requirements into concrete technical roadmaps.

Skills

Distributed systems

Data modeling

AI/LLM integration

Technical leadership

Large-scale software

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's or PhD preferred

Job description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Austin, TX, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• Experience with system architecture, data modeling, distributed systems, and leading large-scale software engineering projects.

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.
• Experience building and deploying LLM-based applications, multi-agent systems, or agentic workflows.
• Experience in the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) domain, or building tools for legal and compliance users.

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.

As a Technical Lead for the regulatory lifecycle engineering team, you will be the primary technical outlook and architect for a crucial part of our unified compliance platform. You will lead a team of engineers in building AI-first solutions to navigate an increasingly complex global regulatory landscape. You will be responsible for merging legacy systems, pioneering workflows for legal text analysis, and ensuring that our tools meet enterprise compliance standards. This role demands a deep understanding of distributed systems, AI and large language model integration, and the ability to drive consensus across highly different stakeholder groups, including legal, compliance, engineering, and product.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

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

Responsibilities

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• Lead the architectural consolidation of existing compliance systems, ensuring high availability, data integrity, and seamless migrations.
• Drive the development of new AI capabilities, including automated requirement mapping and legal assessment drafting, while managing AI risk.
• Design and orchestrate multi-agent systems for complex tasks like document decomposition and metadata extraction, ensuring shared AI component reuse.
• Establish evaluation frameworks and service level objectives for AI models, designing effective workflows to capture expert feedback.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate ambiguous business requirements into concrete technical roadmaps and clear execution phases.

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, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law.

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