Principal Engineer, Search Content Platform

About the role

Google Search Content Platform (SCP) is seeking a strong senior technical leader (Principal Engineer) responsible for driving the technical vision, strategy, and multi-year road maps that transform Google’s content infrastructure into an AI-first platform. This role is pivotal in enabling Search to "answer, explore, and tackle anything" by delivering the world’s most comprehensive and trustworthy knowledge source to power Gemini and Search products like AI Mode (“AIM”) and AI Overviews (“AIO”).

Responsibilities

• Strategize and harden end-to-end Search Content Platform capabilities, ensuring the technical viability and scalability of foundational layers.
• Architect and optimize data acquisition and ingestion pipelines, seamlessly bridging the gap into advanced retrieval and serving environments.
• Drive critical, opinionated infrastructure decisions to mature early-stage platform components into highly reliable systems and technical strategy across the various engineering teams within SCP.
• Strategic thought leadership in identifying the problems worth solving and finding the technical insights to solve the problem.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or other relevant engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• 15 years of experience in software engineering
• Experience tuning and applying large language models (LLMs)

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering
• Experience with technical and product innovation supporting a cross-functional engineering environment
• Ability to balance detailed, technical guidance with “big picture” strategy and enabling teams to deliver products that are effective
• Techically proficient, with the ability to understand all of the areas within Search including Search Content Platform and products like AI Mode and AI Overviews
• Strong organization and prioritization skills along with excellent written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $307000 - $428000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits