Staff Software Engineer, Android Agent

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 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).

• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years

of experience with software design and architecture.

• Experience integrating generative AI tools or Large Language Model (LLM)

interfaces into workflows.

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.

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

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, build, and optimize the end-to-end machine learning systems and

models that power Android's next-generation AI agent.

• Translate ambiguous user needs and product goals for agentic AI into

well-defined technical problems and innovative ML solutions.

• Architect and implement robust data pipelines for collecting, cleaning, and

processing the massive datasets required for training and fine-tuning ML

models.

• Lead the development, training, and continuous improvement of core machine

learning models, with a focus on on-device performance and user privacy.

• Establish and own the evaluation frameworks to rigorously measure model

quality, ensuring our AI features are reliable, helpful, and personalized.