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# Principal Engineer, Specialized Software

- **Company:** Google LLC
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Salary:** $281,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Cloud Services
- **Published:** July 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/FD642B080A2E48EFBF53E986AD58968E/job/

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience
 * 15 years of work experience in software, hardware, or infrastructure engineering, with a focus on technical innovation and engineering leadership

Preferred qualifications:

 * Master's degree or PhD in an AI related field
 * Entrepreneur or startup experience within a larger organization
 * Knowledge of Cloud or AI (builder, code and design savvy)
 * Recognized expert in the field of AI, with examples of products, platforms or experiences built with AI at its core

## Description

* Partner with our engineering and product teams to identify and test strategic, horizontal opportunities for differentiation across our roadmaps with a particular focus on AI.
 * Identify future state of Cloud products and partner closely with technical teams to chart how we'd bring those future states to life.
 * Help our most strategic customers and partners work through the complexity of adopting cutting edge cloud and AI technologies through expert advice.
 * Inspire others internally and externally to work through difficult and disruptive endeavors through sharing experiences, successes, failures and the human side of advanced technology development and adoption.


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