Google

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Storytelling, Photos

Google • $262K — $364K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of experience programming in C
  • 5 years of experience in design, architecture, and testing/launching software products
  • Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (preferred)
  • 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms (preferred)
  • 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role (preferred)
  • 3 years of experience in a complex, matrixed organization (preferred)

Responsibilities

  • Define multi-year technical goals and scalable architecture for agentic storytelling in Photos
  • Architect and develop conversational and agentic capabilities with GenMedia and LLMs
  • Partner with engineering leads to build unified curation, retrieval, and editing capabilities
  • Work closely with research partners to integrate latest generative models
  • Pioneer AI use to accelerate development and coach team on emerging practices

Benefits

  • Access to a comprehensive and competitive benefits package
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Work in a high-impact, visible project area
  • Collaboration with top engineers and researchers at Google
  • Encouragement of innovative approaches to technology solutions
Full Job Description
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X In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; Cambridge, MA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience programming in C .
  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.

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.
  • 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.


About the job

Photos Storytelling is on a mission to help 1.5 billion Photos users craft, experience, and share their life's stories using the world's most advanced AI. We partner directly with GDM to deploy the latest GenMedia models and are actively building agentic features that allow users to deeply reminisce and share their most meaningful moments.

In this role, you will lead our team's efforts to develop and ship agentic Storytelling experiences, working across our Memories and Video Editing teams to help redefine our app for the future. This is a rare, high visibility opportunity to define how AI-native storytelling works at Google scale.

Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) 25% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Define the multi-year technical goal and scalable architecture for agentic storytelling in Photos. Lead the technical strategy connecting curation, retrieval, and story generation systems with the Photos in-app agent and Gemini.
  • Architect and develop conversational and agentic capabilities that leverage GenMedia and the latest LLMs to help users reminisce, curate, and create stories. Establish best practices for agentic systems, focusing on multi-turn orchestration, model evaluation, inference latency, and technical design at massive scale.
  • Partner with engineering leads across Photos to build unified curation, retrieval, and editing capabilities, and work closely with research partners to integrate the latest generative models.
  • Pioneer the use of AI to accelerate development; coach the team on agentic workflows and emerging practices to multiply engineering output and impact.


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.
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$40.2 billion
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1998
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