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Staff AI/ML Engineer, AI Rapid Response Team

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend wel

Company

Google

Location

Mountain View, CA, USA

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-08T09:38:13+00:00

Google's AI Rapid Response Team seeks a staff engineer for its largest AI workloads. The job mixes 2–4 week Strike Sprints with 1–6 month Forward Deployed Engineer embeds, converting vague VP-level mandates on compute, latency and cost into scoped work. Tasks include production C++ and Python, model compression, speculative decoding, dynamic batching, and kernel and memory optimization on TPU and GPU clusters with XLA and Pallas. The posting asks for 8 years in software development and 5 years in ML infrastructure.