Staff AI/ML Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Google LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target 20%

Benefits

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in AI/ML for Google Cloud in Sunnyvale, CA. The role focuses on leading ML design, deployment, and infrastructure, with in-person interviews often required.

The candidate should bring extensive experience across speech, reinforcement learning, ML tooling, and scalable systems. The position emphasizes cross-team leadership, architectural excellence, and ongoing innovation in AI across Google Cloud products and services.

Qualifications

• 8 years of software development experience.
• 5 years in ML-related areas (speech/audio, RL, ML infra, or other ML fields).
• 5 years leading ML design and end-to-end model deployment/processing.
• 3 years in software design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.
• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects; manage priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines; coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Lead design and implementation of solutions in ML areas, optimize ML infrastructure, and guide model optimization and data processing strategies.

Skills

ML engineering

Distributed computing

Large-scale systems

NLP/AI

Software architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD preferred

Job description

Google LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in AI/ML for Google Cloud in Sunnyvale, CA. The role focuses on leading ML design, deployment, and infrastructure, with in-person interviews often required.

The candidate should bring extensive experience across speech, reinforcement learning, ML tooling, and scalable systems. The position emphasizes cross-team leadership, architectural excellence, and ongoing innovation in AI across Google Cloud products and services.