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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Technical Lead, AI/ML Infrastructure - **Company:** Google LLC - **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $207,000.0 - $301,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Computer Engineering, Data Structures, Distributed Systems, Firmware, Design of User Interfaces, Monitoring of Systems, Push Technology, Information Retrieval, Python (Programming Language), Natural Language Processing, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, Data Storage Technologies, System Availability, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Search Engines, Machine Learning Operations - **Published:** June 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/BB1296A4893646B8A2FE92F5231A98DD/job/ ## About the Role Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain., * Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. * 8 years of software development experience in C, C++, Go, or Python. * 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products. * 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture. * 3 years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, high-performance networking stacks, or operating system internals., * Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. * 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms. * 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction. * 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects. * Experience with lower-half server architectures, hardware-adjacent orchestration, and low-level security implementations. * Experience with Kubernetes and Google-internal cluster systems, alongside a proven ability to build telemetry pipelines and monitoring systems for distributed hardware. ## Description 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 well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward., * Lead the design and end-to-end software delivery of specialized AI compute platforms, ensuring high availability for massive-scale workloads. * Establish observability and hardening strategies for the lower-half software stack, including firmware, and hardware qualification. * Architect robust integration interfaces between custom compute topologies and industry-standard workload schedulers like Kubernetes and GKE. * Architect secure boot and cryptographic remote attestation flows for distributed hardware platforms. * Partner closely with hardware engineering and chip design teams to influence future architectures for large-scale deployment. ## Related Videos - [The Cloud is Calling: Answer with In-Demand Skills](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/945-the-cloud-is-calling-answer-with-in-demand-skills) - [Writing a full-text search engine in TypeScript](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/504-writing-a-full-text-search-engine-in-typescript) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [Playing Pong on a shoulder press machine](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100140-playing-pong-on-a-shoulder-press-machine) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [SEO in Angular? 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