Google

Staff Software Engineer, Quality, Google Cloud, Applied AI

Google$207K — $301K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of software development experience in languages like C.
  • Experience with AI, distributed systems, and high performance computing.
  • Master's or PhD in Computer Science or related field preferred.
  • Experience building multi-agent systems in enterprise environments.
  • Familiarity with AI quality evaluation methods.
  • Ability to adapt quickly and respond to customer feedback.

Responsibilities

  • Build core logic for multi-modal customer support agents handling complex reasoning.
  • Develop tools for agents to build, test, and refine themselves iteratively.
  • Architect pathways for integrating Gemini and Vertex AI into client Cloud infrastructure.
  • Establish benchmarks for automated optimization in testing.
  • Own AI quality in production by defining technical metrics and implementing new evaluation frameworks.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Retirement plans with company matching contributions.
  • Generous paid time off and holidays.
  • Employee stock ownership plan and equity options.
  • Wellness programs to support physical and mental health.
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g. C ).
  • Experience with Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, LLMs and High Performance Computing.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related field with a focus on Systems or AI.
  • Experience building and maintaining multi-agent systems or complex applications in an enterprise setting.
  • Experience with evaluation frameworks for AI quality in production (A/B testing, shadow deployment, online learning).
  • Experience with model evaluation and mitigation, context engineering, benchmarking, and testing agentic systems.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and iterate quickly on customer feedback to deliver solutions that precisely meet market needs.


Responsibilities
  • Build the core logic for multi-modal customer support agents that execute complex reasoning across sales and support.
  • Develop automated systems and tools that allow agents to iteratively build, test, and refine other agents.
  • Architect the pathways that embed Gemini and Vertex AI intelligence directly into client-facing Cloud infrastructure.
  • Establish engineering benchmarks to replace manual "trial-and-error" testing with automated, high-fidelity optimization.
  • Take ownership of AI quality for production systems by defining technical metrics aligned with business goals, implementing evaluation frameworks, designing experiments, analyzing loss patterns, and driving improvements through system changes or training data enhancements.


Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) 20% bonus target bonus equity benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

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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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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