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Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Telemetry and Developer Intelligence

Google

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San Jose, CA · Posted November 7, 2026

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Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience in software development. 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and end-to-end Machine Learning (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging). 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products. 5 years of experience with one or more of the following: Speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field. Experience designing software architecture for applications, including AI/ML systems.