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Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI/ML Security

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Hybrid (Kirkland, WA; Seattle, WA; Sunnyvale, CA)$262k - $364kFull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Senior Staff Software Engineer responsible for defining and driving the technical vision and strategy for AI/ML security, specifically Model Armor and Sensitive Data Protection, within Google Cloud. Leads scalable security infrastructure, cross-org alignment, and high-impact initiatives to protect enterprise customers at Google Cloud scale.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the long-term technical goal and architectural strategy for model armor and sensitive data protection, ensuring Google Cloud remains a leader in generative AI security.
  • Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable, low-latency systems to detect and mitigate emerging threats such as prompt injection, jailbreaking, and sensitive data leakage across enterprise environments.
  • Act as a principal technical influencer to align security roadmaps across Google Cloud, DeepMind, and other product areas, navigating constraints like latency, cost, and global compliance.
  • Resolve technical disagreements among execute engineers and researchers, forging consensus to deliver on high-stakes, cross-functional objectives across multiple time zones.
  • Partner with executive leadership to evaluate ML security research and provide technical mentorship to staff and executive engineers.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and working with industry-scale ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
  • 5 years of experience with one or more of: speech/audio, reinforcement learning, ML infrastructure, or related ML field.
  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.

Skills

Required:Architectural designML securityLeadership and cross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
  • Paid Time Off: 20 days per year
  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (69 hours/year in Seattle)
  • Maternity Leave: 28-30 weeks
  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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