**Minimum qualifications:** + Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. + 8 years of experience as a Software Engineering leader in ML Infrastructure, ML or AI for products, or related fields. + Experience with Machine Learning Algorithms, Machine Learning, AI Algorithms, Coding, and System Design, Software Development. **Preferred qualifications:** + Experience working on the internals of Generative AI products, from different applied architectures (diffusion, DiT, decoder-only models) down to being able to operate at core transformer code. + Experience in both designing offline data/training pipelines and global-scale online serving. + Experience in content safety or threat intelligence, as applied to software products. + Experience in Responsible AI or safety-adjacent fields, such as factuality, or product policy. 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. The Content Safety organization in Core protects Google’s users from exposure to offensive, sensitive or potentially harmful content, and keeps them safe at scale. We provide high-quality, low-cost content safety solutions and make them available off-the-shelf for any product or feature team to use, unlocking innovation velocity for Google. Our team combines our unique subject matter expertise in the threat intelligence and content safety domains, along with our production-grade experience in serving infrastructure and product integrations, to protect users from harm, maintain Google’s industry-wide competitiveness in online safety, and help make the internet safer for society as a whole.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 $248,000-$349,000 + 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 (https://careers.google.com/benefits/) . **Responsibilities:** + Safeguard business-critical products that represent significant business, market share or strategic value to Google, including GenAI-based experiences both server-side and on-device. + Design and own the execution of business-critical projects spanning multiple engineering teams and multiple quarters. + Bring a mix of high-scale distributed systems engineering skills, sharp product insight, and AI/machine learning experience to design, build, maintain and scale threat intelligence and content safety solutions that include rules, blocklists, heuristics, vector databases, scalable classifiers, multimodal understanding, large models, flexible UIs, and content processing pipelines. These capabilities are used by products across Google to make their users’ experiences safer. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.