Staff Software Engineer, Google Health

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

Job summary

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information. This role focuses on scalable AI-driven systems and large-scale architectures, with opportunities to switch teams as projects evolve.

Google for Health applies this expertise to improve health outcomes globally, partnering with care teams and using AI for screening and diagnosis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years experience with software design and architecture.
• 5 years experience with one or more of: Speech/audio, reinforcement learning, ML infrastructure, or related ML field.
• 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (deployment, evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• Experience with Generative AI.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a unified, flat agentic architecture driven by tools and skills for proactive wake-ups and user interactions.
• Lead engineering execution using spec-driven development with AI to ensure code, rules, and design are in sync.
• Build and scale evaluation and simulation frameworks to test multi-turn conversations using synthetic data and simulated user actors.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, UX Designers, and frontend engineers to establish server-driven generative UX.

Skills

Software development

Testing & launching software

ML design & infra

Generative AI

Speech/ RL / ML domain

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Master’s degree / PhD (preferred)

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum 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 (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
• 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• Experience with Generative AI.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

About The Job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

Google for Health is a company-wide effort to help billions of people be healthier. We work toward this vision by meeting people in their everyday moments and empowering them to stay healthy and partnering with care teams to provide more accurate and accessible care. Our teams are applying our expertise and technology to improve health outcomes globally – with high-quality information and tools to help people manage their health and wellbeing, solutions to transform care delivery, research to catalyze the use of artificial intelligence for the screening and diagnosis of disease, and data and insights to the public health community.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Design and implement a unified, flat agentic architecture driven by tools and skills, streamlining both proactive wake-ups and reactive user interactions within a single conversational model.
• Lead engineering execution using spec-driven development with AI to ensure code, rules, and design are always in sync.
• Build and scale comprehensive evaluation and simulation frameworks to test multi-turn conversations and longitudinal user interactions using synthetic data and simulated user actors.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, UX Designers, and frontend engineers to establish server-driven generative UX. You will leverage cross-platform frameworks to enable agents to generate high-performance native UI components and dynamic features on the fly.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .