Google

Principal Engineer, Specialized Software

Google$281K — $392K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience
  • 15 years in software, hardware, or infrastructure engineering with a focus on innovation and leadership
  • Master's degree or PhD in an AI-related field (preferred)
  • Experience in startup environments within larger organizations (preferred)
  • Recognized expertise in AI with tangible product or platform examples (preferred)

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with engineering and product teams to explore strategic AI opportunities
  • Define future Cloud product states and work with technical teams on implementation
  • Guide strategic customers in adopting advanced cloud and AI technologies
  • Motivate internal and external stakeholders by sharing experiences and strategies
  • Convert innovative ideas into technology-driven businesses for customers

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
  • 401(k) plan with company matching contributions
  • 20 days of paid vacation accruing steadily
  • 40 hours of sick leave per year, with additional for Seattle
  • 28-30 weeks of short-term disability maternity leave
  • 18 weeks of baby bonding leave
  • 13 paid holidays annually
Full Job Description
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X In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
  • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Seattle, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 15 years of work experience in software, hardware, or infrastructure engineering, with a focus on technical innovation and engineering leadership

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in an AI related field
  • Entrepreneur or startup experience within a larger organization
  • Knowledge of Cloud or AI (builder, code and design savvy)
  • Recognized expert in the field of AI, with examples of products, platforms or experiences built with AI at its core


About the job

Small teams, operating with context, empowerment and access to the world's most promising technology, often create the breakthroughs that define markets. At Google, we can point to 10 products and platforms with over a billion users that started out as projects that initially no one really believed in other than the few engineers who started them.

The Office of the CTO (OCTO) in Google Cloud has leveraged this insight, combined with the direct sponsorship of the Cloud CTO and CEO, to help our most strategic customers transform their organizations using small, adaptable teams and methods, while concurrently supporting our internal collaborators as they take these early technology proof points and build them into scaled products and platforms.
As a Principal Software Engineer, Applied AI, Office of the CTO, Google Cloud, you will create and reinforce the human pathways between Google Engineering and our most strategic customers and partners, allowing all of us to start from loosely defined, potentially transformative market opportunities and convert them into new, technology-enabled businesses. You will help our customers create their future and help us create the future of Google by continuously tuning our innovation system and products to the needs of the world's most complex enterprises.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $281000 - $392000 (USD) 30% bonus target equity benefits

Responsibilities
  • Partner with our engineering and product teams to identify and test strategic, horizontal opportunities for differentiation across our roadmaps with a particular focus on AI.
  • Identify future state of Cloud products and partner closely with technical teams to chart how we'd bring those future states to life.
  • Help our most strategic customers and partners work through the complexity of adopting cutting edge cloud and AI technologies through expert advice.
  • Inspire others internally and externally to work through difficult and disruptive endeavors through sharing experiences, successes, failures and the human side of advanced technology development and adoption.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Learn more about Google
Size
156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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