Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience building products or features that apply machine learning models, with a specific focus on quality hill-climbing to achieve user outcomes.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with consumer product quality ownership in the ML/AI domain.
• Experience taking products or efforts from “zero to one”.

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.

Labs is a group focused on incubating early-stage efforts in support of Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team exists to help discover and create new ways to advance our core products through exploration and the application of new technologies. We work to build new solutions that have the potential to transform how users interact with Google. Our goal is to drive innovation by developing new Google products and capabilities that deliver significant impact over longer timeframes.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $207,000-$300,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google

Responsibilities

• Lead the "hill-climbing" quality initiative for specific verticals, starting with very small business (VSB) and small-to-medium business (SMB) use cases.
• Partner with product management to optimize prompt quality for agentic systems and build robust ML pipeline evaluation frameworks.
• Implement instrumentation, logging, A/B testing, and log analysis alongside in-product user feedback features.
• Translate data insights and system performance analysis into actionable suggestions for product improvements.
• Work cross-functionally in a lean, fast-paced "zero-to-one" environment to prototype and scale new full-stack AI applications from the ground up.