March 3, 2025

Principal Software Engineer, Applied AI, Office of CTO

Mid • On-site

$253,000 - $363,000/yr

Sunnyvale, CA , +1


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 15 years of work experience in software, hardware, or infrastructure engineering, with a focus on technical innovation and engineering leadership

Preferred qualifications:

  • Expertise in the field of AI, with examples of products, platforms, or experiences built with AI at its core

About the job

The Office of the CTO (OCTO) in Google Cloud has leveraged this insight, combined with the direct sponsorship of the Cloud CTO and CEO, to help our strategic customers transform their organizations using small, adaptable teams and methods, while concurrently supporting our internal collaborators as they take these early technology proof points and build them into scaled products and platforms.

This role is unusual in the following ways: the magnitude of engineering and technology talent, from a wide variety of backgrounds and specialities, concentrated in a small organization; the alignment of incentives and governance for our unique mission enables our team to do their deep work, which often takes years to realize, without the short-term pressure of backlog or quota; and support for the individual ideas, passions, and projects that might not be the highest priority elsewhere. In OCTO, most of what you work on is determined by you. This creates a great opportunity to leverage your years of experience to build and scale on a path and timeline that is largely self-directed.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $253,000-$363,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. 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

  • Partner with our engineering and product teams to identify and test strategic, horizontal opportunities for differentiation across roadmaps.
  • Identify future state of Google Cloud products and partner closely with technical teams to chart how we’d bring those future states to life.
  • Help our most strategic customers and partners work through the complexity of adopting cloud and AI technologies through expert advice.
  • Inspire others to work through difficult and disruptive endeavors through sharing experiences, successes, failures and the human side of advanced technology development and adoption.
  • Create and reinforce the human pathways between Google Engineering and our strategic customers and partners, allowing all of us to start from loosely defined, potentially transformative market opportunities and convert into new, technology-enabled businesses.