AI Technical Lead, Cloud Networking

Google
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

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.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.

Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.

Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.

Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.

Qualifications

Minimum

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

8 years of experience programming in C++.

8 years of experience in networking, distributed systems, or Cloud infrastructure.

5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.

Preferred

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.

5 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.

Experience building AI/agentic products, or building infrastructure to serve those products.

Understand the tradeoffs and challenges necessary in making AI and agentic workloads a success.