Software Engineer, Evaluation Infrastructure, Google Home Assistant
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 2 years of professional software development experience, OR 1 year of experience with an advanced degree (e.g., Master's, PhD) in a relevant field.
- 2 years of experience applying fundamental data structures and algorithms to solve technical problems.
- Experience programming in C++.
- Experience developing or maintaining backend systems, data pipelines, or large-scale software infrastructure, including experience with SQL.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Experience with evaluation methodologies, statistical analysis, or quality assurance, especially in the context of Machine Learning or AI systems.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining backend infrastructure, particularly for data processing or evaluation systems.
- Experience in evaluating user-facing product qualities, which can span functional correctness, performance, internationalization, and potentially aspects of accessibility testing frameworks or metrics.
- Experience in logging systems, log analysis, and data processing tools to diagnose issues.
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.
In this role you will enhance the development experience for teams working on Gemini features by ensuring their quality assessments.
The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team
researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make
users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a
home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + 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.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and continuously improve backend infrastructure and pipelines focused on evaluation reliability, replayability, and quality monitoring, leveraging system/log analysis.
- Develop and manage metrics, dashboards, and monitoring systems to track and ensure the trustworthiness and consistency of evaluation results.
- Collaborate closely with feature engineers, quality leads, and other stakeholders across the product area to define requirements and prioritize infrastructure development.
- Collaborate with peer engineers to define technical strategy, unify evaluation stacks, and establish best practices for evaluations.
- Own evaluation infrastructure components, driving development and improvements throughout the project lifecycle.
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