Google

Principal Engineer, AI Research and Development

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3 days ago
Zürich, Switzerland or Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$307k - $427k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define the multi-year architecture and technical strategy for incubating, prototyping, and productionizing agent platforms, inference efficiency, and AI systems infrastructure.
  • Drive inference optimization through simulation-driven infrastructure modeling, acceleration, and hardware-software co-design.
  • Architect shared evaluation harnesses, developer frameworks, multi-tenant standards, and safety rails for AI-native engineering.
  • Partner with DeepMind research and modeling teams to align frontier model requirements with next-generation AI and Cloud infrastructure.
  • Lead experimental systems through benchmarking, production hardening, and multi-tenant operational deployment.
  • Advise executive stakeholders and C-suite customers, deliver technical perspectives, and shape industry and governance standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 15 years of software engineering or applied research experience building, optimizing, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
  • At least 3 years of experience building AI applications, models, or infrastructure.
  • Preferred PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • Track record of technical leadership delivering novel research concepts, algorithms, or systems architectures into production software or commercial platforms.
  • Preferred 20 years of combined experience across systems research, infrastructure engineering, and commercial product delivery.
  • Experience establishing multi-organizational technical strategy across research, engineering, and product teams.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous infrastructure, security, and production problems into foundational systems solutions.
  • Recognized authority in the research community with significant contributions to open-source ecosystems, standards, or industry consortia.

Tech Stack

Google Cloud

Categories

AI Research
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About Google

10,000+ employees

Google builds consumer and enterprise software and services including Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, and Google Cloud. Its business model centers on digital advertising and paid cloud, software, and hardware offerings (e.g., Pixel and Nest) for consumers, developers, and organizations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google operates globally as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

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