Senior Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, CA
$226,150–$252,000from the description
Jul 27, 2026
Mountain View, CA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software engineering role on Google DeepMind's Gemini team, focused on building and maintaining production serving infrastructure for large language and multimodal models. Day-to-day work spans developing orchestration frameworks for large-scale streaming and audio, debugging and monitoring live ML systems, and driving the team's near-term technical roadmap. Suits engineers with a strong mix of systems software and applied ML experience.
Senior level · 3+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Master's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 330 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 250–520
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $217,796 (middle half $177,469–$231,052). 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 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The minimum qualifications state a Master's degree plus 3 years of experience OR a Ph.D. (with no experience requirement stated). The degree requirement is set to Master's as the minimum formal degree that gates the role; a Ph.D. is listed as an accepted alternative path.
The posting's title says 'Senior' but the inline label reads 'Mid Experience' — this appears to be Google's internal leveling descriptor (likely L5), not a contradiction of the Senior title. The role is assessed as Senior based on the responsibilities (technical roadmap ownership, mentoring, production ML systems).
Reinforcement learning and speech/audio technologies are listed as a paired requirement ('Reinforcement learning or speech/audio technologies') in the minimum qualifications; they are captured as a single required skill with the audio alternative noted.
The salary range ($226,150–$252,000/year) is the stated US base; the posting also mentions a 15% bonus target and equity, which cannot be represented in the compensation fields.
The alternative occupation code 15-2051 (Data Scientists) is noted as a runner-up given the heavy ML/model-deployment focus, but the primary day-to-day work is building and shipping production software infrastructure, making 15-1252 the better fit.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): root cause analysis.
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