Android System Health Engineer, AICore

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.

Android is Google’s open-source mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

Responsibilities

• Set up production monitoring including system health and inference performance, which would be configured as quality gates to automate rollouts.
• Identify system health metrics that matter to our service.
• Work with Android and Pixel System Health councils to understand the impact on system health of new features.
• Work with various testing teams, put the current baseline metrics in perspective with expectations, provide insights across Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEMs) or models.
• Build and release the AICore Android application package (APK) variants, feature configuration, model downloading, experiments, content safety, security, privacy and orchestration.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms and software development in one or more programming languages.
• 5 years of experience with Android mobile application development or Android framework.
• Experience working with Java or Kotlin.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience in Machine Learning (e.g., computer vision, transformers, Generative AI, Large Language Model (LLM)).
• Excellent leadership, communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits: 

• Health and Wellbeing (Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents)
• Financial wellbeing (Competitive compensation, regular bonus and equity refresh opportunities)
• Flexibility and time off (Paid time off, including vacation, bereavement, jury duty, sick leave, parental leave, disability, and holidays)
• Family support and care (Fertility and growing family support, parental leave and baby bonding leave)
• Community and personal development (Educational reimbursement)
• Googley extras (Inspiring spaces to work, recharge, and collaborate with fellow Googlers)

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 Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.