Staff AI/ML Engineer — Merchant Growth & Insights

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity granting

Benefits package

Job summary

Google Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Merchant Shopping Growth and Insights AI/ML in Mountain View, CA. You will own outcomes, drive decision making, and influence stakeholders while solving ambiguous problems in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

The role emphasizes leading ML design and infrastructure, deploying scalable solutions, and collaborating with Commerce teams to advance shopping experiences at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 5 years of experience with one or more of the following: speech/audio, reinforcement learning, or another ML field.
• 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (model deployment, evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Outcomes ownership

Ambiguity handling

Stakeholder influence

Domain expertise

ML design

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s or PhD in Engineering/CS

Tools

Generative AI tools

LLM interfaces

Job description

Google Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Merchant Shopping Growth and Insights AI/ML in Mountain View, CA. You will own outcomes, drive decision making, and influence stakeholders while solving ambiguous problems in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

The role emphasizes leading ML design and infrastructure, deploying scalable solutions, and collaborating with Commerce teams to advance shopping experiences at scale.