Staff Software Engineer, AI Ads & Commerce Platform

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

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Ads and Commerce Advisor Platform in Mountain View, CA. This role focuses on leading ML-driven architecture and deploying scalable AI-enabled advertising tech. You will guide cross-functional teams and shape platform direction to support billions of interactions.

The role emphasizes system design, AI tooling, and collaborative problem solving with Google Research/DeepMind partners. In-person interviews are typical.

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 leading ML design and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• 2 years of experience with state of the art GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or GenAI concepts (language modeling, computer vision).

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction and roadmap for the orchestration runtime behind the initiatives: the streaming reasoning loop, function calling, context and memory management, sub-agent and remote-agent protocols, and GenUI response streaming.
• Own how the platform adopts new model generations and inference APIs, prompting and tool-calling standards, thinking and streaming capabilities, and the migration playbook that moves XXB monthly requests without regressions.
• Mentor platform engineers, set design and code review standards, and raise the organization's expertise in production agentic systems.
• Advance how 300+ skills and tools are discovered, loaded, versioned and governed so teams ship independently without destabilizing the whole system.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.

Skills

Software development

ML design

GenAI techniques

Leadership

System architecture

Model deployment

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

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

Job description

Google LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Ads and Commerce Advisor Platform in Mountain View, CA. This role focuses on leading ML-driven architecture and deploying scalable AI-enabled advertising tech. You will guide cross-functional teams and shape platform direction to support billions of interactions.

The role emphasizes system design, AI tooling, and collaborative problem solving with Google Research/DeepMind partners. In-person interviews are typical.