Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in AI/ML, and leading teams to solve ML related problems.
- Experience in cross-organizational influence.
- Ability to inspire and guide teams towards successful business outcomes and foster a positive engineering culture.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
About The Job
Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes way 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.
Alphabet's next-generation Conversation Platform, built by our organization, is designed to support the entire sales and support ecosystem. This platform operates at an immense scale, managing hundreds of millions of conversations annually and serving nearly all Product Areas across Alphabet and almost every country worldwide. It drives impact by leveraging AI to deliver a seamless problem-resolution experience for agents, supervisors, managers, analysts, engineers, and business leaders.
Our ML Foundations team is responsible for developing the core machine learning capabilities of this conversation platform. We create and maintain essential ML functionalities such as Transcription, Live Translation, Summarization, and various ML annotations.
At Corp Eng, we build world-leading business solutions that scale a more helpful Google for everyone. As Google's IT organization, we provide end-to-end solutions for organizations across Google. We deliver the right tools, platforms, and experiences for all Googlers as they create more helpful products and services for everyone. In the simplest terms, we are Google for Googlers.
Responsibilities
- Identify crucial engineering requirements, including managing technical debt, integrating technological advancements, and implementing processes to enhance product quality. Define the goal and roadmap, overseeing project priorities, and ensuring their timely execution.
- Serve as a coach and mentor, actively supporting engineers in their career development.
- Develop an understanding of the ML foundation's technical architecture to effectively drive customer success.
- Contribute to the growth and leadership of a vital platform capability, which is constantly evolving, with a concentrated effort on developing foundational ML capabilities aimed at enhancing automation and efficiency across sales and support enterprise businesses.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .
