Principal Engineer, Platform and Scale, Vertex AI

About the job

In this role, you will lead the design, development, and operation of our Vertex Generative AI Serving platform. This platform will be instrumental in delivering cutting-edge AI experiences across Google Cloud, impacting users globally.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Own and set the strategic roadmap, resource allocation, execution and delivery through critical technology choices, defining operational excellence standards, and leading strategic partnerships within Google to drive platform adoption and evolution.
• Lead a growing engineering organization across multiple sites, responsible for determining the performance, reliability, and efficiency of our Generative AI models in production, influencing user satisfaction and adoption of AI-powered features. 
• Lead, collaborate, and influence across the broader Vertex platform teams, Google research and CoreML teams to build up the LM serving platform. 
• Evolve the strategic direction for the organization as the set of challenges and opportunities for Google rapidly changes and provide executive leadership to define the product vision, roadmap, and execution strategy. Influence key stakeholders across the company, advocating for resources and driving adoption of the platform.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in software engineering leadership roles and building developer-facing products or platforms.
• Experience with generative AI (LLMs, diffusion models, etc.), development workflows, and use cases.
• Experience in technical leadership, leading global projects and setting technical direction for teams.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience driving engineering excellence through testing, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle.
• Understanding of developer needs, with the ability to translate them into exceptional software tools and experiences.
• Proven and dynamic leader with the ability to set a vision and inspire those around them.

Benefits: 

• Health and Wellbeing (Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents)
• Financial wellbeing (Competitive compensation, regular bonus and equity refresh opportunities)
• Flexibility and time off (Paid time off, including vacation, bereavement, jury duty, sick leave, parental leave, disability, and holidays)
• Family support and care (Fertility and growing family support, parental leave and baby bonding leave)
• Community and personal development (Educational reimbursement)
• Googley extras (Inspiring spaces to work, recharge, and collaborate with fellow Googlers)