Principal Engineer, Android Applications, Search Experience

The Search Experience team is responsible for building and maintaining an amazingly useful Search user interface across every client, from desktop Chrome to our Android Google app. We are reinventing the Search experience from the ground up with new AI capabilities like AI Overviews, conversations in AI Mode, and generative UI to help users synthesize huge amounts of information, make sense of complex topics, and make progress on difficult tasks. The team runs extensive live experiments, technical metric and feedback analysis, and UXR evaluations to continually optimize our product for our users.

Our Android Google app is one of the premier entry points to the Google product, and one of the top apps in the App Store. It creatively uses Android app capabilities and Google technology to make common user journeys efficient and delightful and to enable new use cases like multimodal search and organizing long running information journeys.

The Search technical lead team is a small group of our most senior engineers with decades of experience building innovative products at scale. They serve as cross-functional advisors and technical decision-makers on the most strategic and complex problems in Search, integrating requirements and priorities ranging from product goals to client reliability, and server capacity to UX excellence. As Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for the technical direction of the Android Google app, balancing product strategy, UX outlook, platform capabilities, and applying innovative new capabilities.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

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

US: $307000 - $428000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Build app user experiences. Design integrations of device capabilities (i.e., voice, camera, video, haptics, local computation) and server-side intelligence.
• Participate in scalable development of server/client hybrid rendering systems.
• Optimize performance and efficiency of critical use cases.
• Onboard and introduce new features to users and cross-product integrations.
• Contribute significantly to Search’s strategic roadmap.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in software engineering with experience building technical products and services.
• 10 years of experience in software application development or running large-scale systems operations.
• 10 years of experience with Android app development and tools, including building apps with installed user base.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience with AI agents, AI-enabled coding tools, and AI chat products.
• Experience with AI-centered product features. Experience with the leadership of a user-facing product effort.
  
• Excellent mathematical skills with knowledge of statistical methods.
• Ability to influence outside lines of formal authority, working on and with technical and cross-functional or highly matrixed teams to get things done.
• Excellent communication, teamwork, planning, and decision-making skills.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.