Principal Engineer, Data Quality, AI Foundry
Google· AI Foundry / Core Data Quality
San Jose, CA, USA$307k - $427kFull-timePosted 3d ago
About the role
Principal Engineer role leading data quality efforts for AI Foundry, delivering high-quality datasets for Search and DeepMind training, and setting technical direction for data quality and data flywheels at scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategy, technical vision, and roadmaps for the data quality team to deliver high-quality datasets for DeepMind and Search.
- Drive the architecture toward establishing the data flywheel for ML training data and Search Context that can self correct and self heal as the data travels through multiple dynamic and large-scale systems (such as sourcing, acquisition and indexing) to the data store.
- Collaborate closely with DeepMind and Search researchers, data analysts, and engineers to identify key Value of Data (VoD) signals.
- Partner with infrastructure owners in AI Foundry to evolve systems—including crawl, processing, and signal enrichment—to deliver high-quality datasets that power Search features and AI models.
- Provide technical guidance to critical components of the context quality area, such as large-scale signal developments, design and development of quality metrics.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 15 years of experience in software engineering, building and working with systems in the technology organization.
- 7 years of experience in a technical leadership role with/without direct reports.
- 5 years of experience developing and deploying machine learning models on data sets.
- 3 years of infrastructure or data systems experience building or managing infrastructure products, such as distributed storage systems, data warehousing, or data processing pipelines.
Skills
Required:Data quality strategyLarge-scale data systemsMachine learning data pipelines
Benefits
- US: $307000 - $427000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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