Software Engineer, Full Stack, NotebookLM

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.

NotebookLM is a tool for understanding the information that matters most to you, and it lets you create things to help others understand.

We are hiring to help us scale and also reimagine what NotebookLM can be. Come and help us figure out the future of human-AI interactions.

Labs is a group focused on incubating early-stage efforts in support of Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team exists to help discover and create new ways to advance our core products through exploration and the application of new technologies. We work to build new solutions that have the potential to transform how users interact with Google. Our goal is to drive innovation by developing new Google products and capabilities that deliver significant impact over longer timeframes.

Responsibilities

• Bring your opinionated perspectives and organizational abilities, to continually rethink the product's core value proposition as AI technology evolves. Prototype and build features and capabilities end-to-end.
• Balance model capabilities with user focus. You will act as a super user advocate and bring front-end design aesthetics and product taste to the user experience. Link back-end capabilities to fluid critical user journeys (CUJs).
• Be engaged in the continual transformation of the role of the human builder as humans leverage a bigger and wider fleet of builder agents.
• Build with attention to performance, stability, and scalability.
• Drive engineering and product alignment autonomously in an evolving product space. Rally team your ideas and innovations through compelling communication and prototypes.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 5 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 4 years of experience in client and server development of web applications.
• 2 years of experience working with google3 web production environments.
• Experience building user-facing agentic features.
• Experience working collaboratively with Product Management and UX.