Staff Software Engineer, Generative AI & Data Analytics

Socket.dev; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Google Cloud seeks an experienced AI/ML software engineer to bridge cutting-edge models with enterprise data exploration at scale. You will own the core reasoning engine translating natural language into SQL insights and collaborate across AI/ML, UX, and Product to shape the agentic future of BigQuery.

You will guide production-grade agent services, ensure reliability and observability, and mentor engineers to tackle high-impact, data-centric AI challenges within a hyperscale cloud ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience leading ML design and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical strategy and architectural design of the core reasoning engine that translates natural language into reliable SQL insights, ensuring the platform scales to support complex enterprise data exploration.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with AI/ML, UX, and Product teams to define the "agentic" future of BigQuery, bridging the gap between raw data and business-ready answers.
• Establish and maintain engineering excellence by setting the bar for performance, reliability, and observability of production-critical agent services across the BigQuery ecosystem.
• Mentor and influence a broad group of engineers, identifying and refining ambiguous, high-impact problems into tractable projects that advance our data-centric AI capabilities.

Skills

Software development

ML design

ML infrastructure

Software testing

Production readiness

Cross-functional collaboration

Java

Python

NodeJS

Golang

Recommender systems

Generative AI

LLMs

Information retrieval

Vector databases

Data agents

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google Cloud seeks an experienced AI/ML software engineer to bridge cutting-edge models with enterprise data exploration at scale. You will own the core reasoning engine translating natural language into SQL insights and collaborate across AI/ML, UX, and Product to shape the agentic future of BigQuery.

You will guide production-grade agent services, ensure reliability and observability, and mentor engineers to tackle high-impact, data-centric AI challenges within a hyperscale cloud ecosystem.