Staff Backend Engineer, ML Infra & Rapid Prototyping

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

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Job summary

Google LLC in Mountain View, CA is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and maintain large-scale, ML-enabled software systems. You will work on projects spanning information retrieval, distributed computing, and AI tooling, delivering robust, scalable solutions for billions of users across Google products.

The role emphasizes leading ML design, optimizing end-to-end deployment, model evaluation, and integrating generative AI tools and LLM interfaces.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, 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 speech/audio, reinforcement learning, ML infrastructure, or another specialized ML field.
• 5 years of experience leading ML design, optimizing end-to-end ML (deployment, evaluation, tuning), and integrating generative AI tools or Large Language Model (LLM) interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions and resilient distributed backend infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership on generative media projects, managing project priorities, deadlines, and architectural deliverables.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines, while influencing and coaching a distributed team of engineers.
• Lead the design and implementation of solutions in specialized ML areas, optimize ML infrastructure, and guide model optimization and data processing strategies.
• Prototype innovative cross-stack features and clean APIs that bridge core multimodal generation pipelines with interactive user interfaces.

Job description

Google LLC in Mountain View, CA is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and maintain large-scale, ML-enabled software systems. You will work on projects spanning information retrieval, distributed computing, and AI tooling, delivering robust, scalable solutions for billions of users across Google products.

The role emphasizes leading ML design, optimizing end-to-end deployment, model evaluation, and integrating generative AI tools and LLM interfaces.