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Staff Software Engineer, AI Data Safety

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Compensation
$207–300K/yr
Location
Mountain View, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Google’s AI Data Safety team builds large-scale data pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and observability platforms to improve safety and quality across generative AI products. The Staff Software Engineer will design and build infrastructure and systems for data workflows, model quality analysis, and safety monitoring, and apply data techniques to improve ML model compliance and quality. The role partners with teams including DeepMind, Trust and Safety, and Product Engineering.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Software Development, requiredSpeech/Audio, requiredReinforcement Learning, requiredML Infrastructure, requiredMachine Learning, requiredML Design, requiredEnd-to-End ML Optimization, requiredGenerative AI Integration, requiredLLM Interfaces, requiredData Structures and Algorithms, nice to haveTechnical Leadership, nice to haveProject Team Leadership, nice to haveTechnical Direction, nice to haveCross-Functional Collaboration, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience, required8 Years Software Development Experience, required5 Years ML Field Experience, required5 Years ML Design Experience, requiredMaster's or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or Related Field, nice to have8 Years Data Structures and Algorithms Experience, nice to have3 Years Technical Leadership Experience, nice to have3 Years Complex Organization Experience, nice to haveEnglish Proficiency, required

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience in software development.

  • 5 years of experience with one or more of the following: speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.

  • 5 years of experience leading ML design and optimizing end-to-end machine learning (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).

  • Experience integrating generative AI tools or Large Language Model (LLM) interfaces into workflows.

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.

  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.

  • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Our mission in AI data safety is to reduce critical AI safety risks by transforming production data into continuous safety and quality improvements across Google’s generative AI products. Partnering closely with DeepMind, Trust and Safety, and Product Engineering teams, we build and operate foundational, large-scale data pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and observability platforms across Gemini, AI Studio, Search, and Cloud surfaces.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable infrastructure, tools, pipelines, workflows and provide high impact data sets to support the rapidly evolving GenAI data ecosystem.

  • Design and build scalable systems and platforms to support iterative model quality analysis, continnous model compliance and safety monitoring.

  • Apply data enrichment, curation and analysis techniques to improve the compliance and quality of ML models.

  • Support client onboarding and engagement on platform.

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How this job compares

Set against the 8,920 open Software Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$207–300K/yr
  • California median$187–280K/yr1,323 salary ranges
  • US median$146–253K/yr6,825 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $254K, is 10% above the California median midpoint ($231K) — in the middle half of Software Engineering salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,802 open Software Engineering jobs in California and 8,920 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Software Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (6,725 postings).
Education
2,159 of the 8,920 open Software Engineering jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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