Distinguished Engineer, AI-Powered Safety

Senior • On-site

$349,000 - $485,000/yr

New York, NY , +1

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
15 years of engineering experience, with experience in technical innovation.
Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems involving machine learning or AI.
Experience in Applied AI, with Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic systems, and their application to problems.

Preferred qualifications:

An advanced degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
Experience architecting and delivering cloud-native solutions at scale.
Experience in Trust and Safety, content moderation, or related anti-abuse field.
Experience providing technical guidance and enabling dozens of teams to deliver on complex, cross-functional engineering projects.
Experience as an executive-level technical leader with experience architecting and delivering transformational technical initiatives.
An entrepreneurial and strategic mindset, with the ability to translate high-level business goals into a concrete technical outlook and roadmap.

About the job

As a Distinguished Engineer for AI-Powered Safety, you will be the most executive technical leader responsible for setting the outlook and driving the technical architecture for transforming content moderation across Google. You will lead the charge to reinvent it, moving from a purely human-centric model to one that is AI-first and AI-assisted, so as to empower humans to increase the company's ability to cover the wide and deep spectrum of harm and misuse the Internet is facing. This is an executive, direct individual contributor role that requires a blend of deep technical expertise in large-scale AI systems and a strategic mindset to solve critical operational challenges.

In this role, you will be responsible for the overarching technical strategy that enables the automation and assistance of millions of human review hours, leveraging LLMs and agentic systems. You will architect and build the foundational platforms and intelligent systems that will be used across all of Google's product areas to ensure content safety and quality. This role sits at the intersection of Trust and Safety and Core engineering, and you will provide the technical guidance and outlook to unite dozens of teams toward a common architectural future. Serve as the executive technical advisor to executive sponsors, providing insights and guidance on technical feasibility, risk, and the long-term roadmap. You will lead the technical innovation required to achieve a multi-year roadmap, while demonstrably improving the quality and consistency of our content safety decisions.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $349,000-$485,000 + 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

Define the technical outlook and long-term strategy for the AI-first transformation of content moderation across Google.
Architect the foundational systems for deploying and scaling LLM and agentic-based solutions for both fully automated and human-in-the-loop content review workflows.
Lead the design and development of a unified measurement and evaluation platform to track the quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of AI-driven moderation compared to human review.
Pioneer novel approaches to building and deploying "agentic" AI systems that can automate complex, multi-step investigation and enforcement workflows currently managed by expert human teams.
Drive the technical strategy for integrating disparate AI solutions across numerous Product Areas into a cohesive, scalable, and cost-effective ecosystem.

Google

Google LLC started as a PhD project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 at Stanford University. Google LLC has blossomed into a behemoth of the tech world. With its mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, Google’s search engine is its crown jewel. Online advertising, via AdWords and AdSense, forms the backbone of its financial success. Beyond search, Google has ventured into cloud computing, hardware, and software development. The innovative PageRank algorithm revolutionized search engine technology, and surviving the dot-com bubble burst and going public in 2004 spurred its meteoric growth. Acquiring YouTube stands as a testament to Google’s strategic expansion.