Software Engineering Manager, GenAI Quality, Photos

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus target 20%

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google in Mountain View seeks a Software Engineering Manager to lead ML design, deploy GenAI systems, and guide engineers across multiple teams and locations.

You will own outcomes, set technical direction, review designs, and help engineers grow while partnering with product managers to deliver high-impact features at scale.

The role includes managing budgets, coordinating with infrastructure, and advancing research initiatives in AI and large-scale processing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience leading ML design and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., large language models, multi-modal, large vision models) or GenAI concepts.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Own the outcomes and technical decisions made by the team.
• Drive engineering quality and technical excellence across all team deliverables.
• Review technical designs and drive alignment for high-performing GenAI systems.
• Identify and allocate projects according to team skillset, interests, and availability.
• Collaborate with product managers to maximize quality for engineering effort and risk.

Skills

ML design

Leadership

GenAI

Team management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering/CS or related field

Job description

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

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience leading ML design and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., large language models, multi-modal, large vision models) or with GenAI-related concepts (e.g., language modeling, computer vision).
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
• Experience in launching ML enabled product features to public users.

About The Job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

Photos Ellmann team's mission is helping users thrive by unlocking the full value of a life's worth of photos.

The Ellmann Signals and Modeling team builds out and refines signals and agentic tools to support Photos AI features and Google-wide Personal Intelligence. We use multimodal large language models (LLMs), classical machine learning, and LLM-assisted workflows for data and evaluation, and do tons of prototyping. We ship with standard Google infra for large-scale data processing and serving -- ps1, server platform, and flume.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Own the outcomes and technical decisions made by the team.
• Drive engineering quality and technical excellence across all team deliverables.
• Review technical designs and drive alignment for high-performing GenAI systems.
• Identify and allocate projects according to team skillset, interests, and availability.
• Collaborate with product managers to maximize quality for engineering effort and risk.

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. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .