Senior Developer Relations Engineer, AI Infrastructure at Google
Seattle, WA
$163,000–$237,000from the description
Jun 30, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits at the intersection of hands-on AI infrastructure work and developer outreach. The engineer is expected to run real training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads on GPU and TPU hardware, then translate that practical experience into technical content — blogs, videos, demos, and talks — aimed at the broader developer community. It suits someone with a background in AI/ML infrastructure and an established track record of public technical communication.
Senior level · 5+ years · Sunnyvale, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
What the occupation pays Median $188,486 (middle half $139,113–$224,920). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
This is a Developer Relations / Developer Advocacy role — a hybrid of hands-on technical work and external community/content work. 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is the best fit; 15-1252 (Software Developers) is the runner-up given the strong emphasis on building and running real workloads.
The posting lists multiple possible work locations: Sunnyvale CA, Cambridge MA, Kirkland WA, New York NY, Raleigh NC, Durham NC, and Seattle WA. Sunnyvale is listed first; the role is not fully remote.
The Bachelor's degree requirement explicitly accepts 'equivalent practical experience', so the degree requirement is set to None.
The 2-year AI/ML workloads requirement explicitly names Kubernetes or GKE as the orchestration context — Kubernetes is also called out separately under preferred qualifications, but it is a hard gate via the minimum qualifications block.
Developer content creation (blogs, videos, podcasts, live streams) is a hard gate with a stated 2-year minimum — unusual for a software engineering role but clearly required here.
Python is listed under preferred qualifications with an explicit note that strong OOP in C++ or Java is acceptable; marked preferred with those languages as alternatives.
The compensation figure of $163,000–$237,000/year is stated for the US, plus a 15% bonus target and equity — bonus and equity cannot be represented in the comp fields and are noted here.
The posting's internal framing labels this role 'Mid Experience' in the header, but the title says 'Senior' and the requirements (5 years total, 2 years specialized AI/ML, external public presence) support a Senior classification.
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