Engineering Manager, Home Infrastructure, Platform and Devices
GoogleMinimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects.
- 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
- Experience building distributed systems at a large scale.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Experience working with C++ or JAVA.
About the job
Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.
With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.
Voice Serving team develops scalable and trustworthy infrastructure to serve journeys triggered by voice and other modalities. We work across multiple areas of the serving stack including understanding, ranking and multi-modal fulfilment. We are constantly evolving our stack to blend the latest technological advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to elevate the quality of response to queries. The infrastructure we build ultimately enables highly differentiated experiences across various platforms and surfaces within Google Home.
The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.Responsibilities
- Support the design, architecture, and optimization of core functionalities such as query understanding, intent generation, and response planning across voice and other modalities for Agentic flows.
- Assume ownership of the technical roadmaps for multiple Google Home programs.
- Engage closely with cross-functional teams (e.g., infrastructure, intelligence, platform, experience) to ensure alignment.
- Provide technical guidance to both junior and executive engineers, fostering a high-performance environment.
- Demonstrate adaptability and a willingness to undertake new issues to address evolving team requirements.