Senior Software Engineer, GenAI, Search
Company: Google
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $174,000 - $252,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-11-13
About this role
In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.
### Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 3 years of experience with an advanced degree.
- Experience working with Machine Learning and Generative AI.
- Experience conducting data analysis and quality evaluations.
- Experience with model training and Search Quality.
### Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
- Experience with Large Language Model (LLM) training, prompt tuning, or evaluating models.
- Experience conducting data analysis and designing automated qualitative/quantitative metrics (e.g., custom win/loss classifiers).
- Experience in Search Quality or developing user-facing AI products.
## About the job
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.
With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverabl...