Staff Software Engineer, Google Health

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

Job summary

Google Health seeks a Staff Software Engineer in Mountain View to advance health tech with scalable ML systems and AI-driven products. You will own critical architecture across large-scale features and collaborate across teams to push the frontier of health information processing.

The role emphasizes leadership in design, testing and deployment of ML-enabled services, with a focus on robust, measurable outcomes for billions of users worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 5 years testing and launching software products; 3 years in design/architecture.
• 5 years with ML design, ML infrastructure, or related ML field.
• Experience with Generative AI.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Software development experience

Generative AI

Speech/Audio & ML infra

ML design & infrastructure

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering or CS

Job description

Share Staff Software Engineer, Google Health

Google Mountain View, CA, USA

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

Requirements:

• 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 - 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

• 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.

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