Google

Principal Engineer, AI Ecosystem

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2 days ago
Kirkland, WA, USA +2 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$307k - $427k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Enable ML engineers working primarily in Python to scale workloads from local iteration to 1,000,000+ accelerators without requiring deep infrastructure expertise.
  • Represent the emerging AI/ML end-user persona and improve the GKE team’s understanding of real-world AI workload lifecycle needs.
  • Drive the development and architectural direction of infrastructure optimized for accelerated and agentic workloads.
  • Architect and lead execution of industry-defining technical standards through direct technical work and by mentoring and guiding engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on technical innovation, large-scale systems operations, or engineering leadership.
  • 10 years of experience with distributed systems, ML/AI infrastructure, deep learning frameworks, or large-scale compute orchestration.
  • Preferred: Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing, or a related field.
  • Preferred: Experience operating at company-wide or multi-organization scale and driving technical direction for foundational systems.
  • Preferred: Expertise in HPC, distributed workload schedulers such as Slurm, and complex LLM training and inference workloads at massive scale.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with cloud-native orchestration frameworks and with bridging traditional HPC methodologies and modern cloud infrastructure.
  • Preferred: Ability to influence across formal reporting lines and align technical and product strategies in matrixed environments.

Benefits

  • US base pay is listed as $307000-$427000, plus a 30% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
  • Google provides benefits; additional benefits details are referenced in the posting.
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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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