Senior Software Engineer, On-Device Machine Learning

Google

Sunnyvale, California, United StatesFull-time$174,000–$252,000Posted Oct 29, 2026

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming

languages.

  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products,

and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

  • 3 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.

  • 3 years of experience with end-to-end Machine Learning (e.g., model

deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • Experience with on-device ML SDKs/tooling (e.g., TensorFlow Lite, ExecuTorch,

Core ML, SNPE/QNN).

  • Knowledge of ML converters/compilers, and hardware-accelerated ML inference

techniques and proficiency in ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow).

  • Understanding of Generative AI model architectures and their optimization for

on-device execution.

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.

LiteRT is Google’s next generation on-device AI framework, succeeding TensorFlow

Lite (TFLite). It is designed to maximize the performance, efficiency, and

portability of ML models on a wide array of edge devices, from mobile phones to

embedded systems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills,

experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

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

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Write and test product or system development code.
  • Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the

sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations

and quality.

  • Develop LiteRT, Google's on-device AI framework for 1P and 3P, enabling SOTA

hardware acceleration and use cases on edge platforms

  • Enable on-device deployment of key models, such as Gemini Nano and Gemma,

across various accelerators (GPU / Pixel TPU / NPUs / CPU) on Android,

Chrome, and more.

  • Improve performance of on-device model inference via optimizations in the

model conversion, on-device runtime and kernel implementation.

Responsibilities

  • Write and test product or system development code.
  • Triage and resolve product or system issues by analyzing causes and impacts on hardware, networks, services, and quality.
  • Develop LiteRT, Google's on-device AI framework, to enable hardware acceleration and edge-device use cases.
  • Enable deployment of models such as Gemini Nano and Gemma across accelerators and platforms including Android and Chrome.
  • Optimize on-device model inference through improvements to model conversion, runtime, and kernels.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 5 years of software development experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, including 1 year in software design and architecture.
  • At least 3 years of experience in speech/audio, reinforcement learning, ML infrastructure, or another ML specialization.
  • At least 3 years of end-to-end machine learning experience, including model deployment, evaluation, data processing, or debugging.
  • Preferred: Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • Preferred: 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • Preferred: Experience with on-device ML SDKs or tooling such as TensorFlow Lite, ExecuTorch, Core ML, or SNPE/QNN.

Benefits

  • 15% bonus target
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Skills mentioned

C++PythonMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchModel DeploymentPerformance OptimizationDebuggingEmbedded Systems

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