Staff Software Engineer: Gen AI Creative Features for Photos

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

Job summary

Google Photos Create team in Mountain View, CA is seeking a software engineer to advance next‑generation gen media technologies. You will own features end‑to‑end, drive experiments from prototyping to production, and partner with product and design to deliver delightful experiences for billions of users.

The role requires strong full‑stack capabilities, experience across Java, Python, and JavaScript, plus expertise in AI/LLM workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 5 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Responsibilities

• Be an owner and build new creativity features, balancing innovative explorations and usages of gen media technologies and scrappy prototyping in a fast‑moving space to find a good product‑market‑fit for our new features.
• Steer both short and long term technical investments in this space, and help set the direction for the team.
• Lead collaboration efforts across Photos to elevate our team and expand the reach and capabilities…
• Help the team grow full‑stack to own features end‑to‑end.
• Bring DevAI breakthroughs and best practices to elevate the broader engineering team.

Skills

Full stack development

Java

Python

Golang

JavaScript/TypeScript

HTML/CSS

Software design

LLM integration

AI/Gen AI

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Job description

Google Photos Create team in Mountain View, CA is seeking a software engineer to advance next‑generation gen media technologies. You will own features end‑to‑end, drive experiments from prototyping to production, and partner with product and design to deliver delightful experiences for billions of users.

The role requires strong full‑stack capabilities, experience across Java, Python, and JavaScript, plus expertise in AI/LLM workflows.