Engineering Director, Labs - Mountain View or New York

Key Skills

Java Programming, Leadership, Management, Python Programming, SQL, Big Data Technology, Machine learning techniques

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience with any of the following: software product development teams, big data analytics, multi tenant cloud infrastructures, storage systems, and content delivery networks.
• 10 years of experience in leadership and management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Engineering/Machine Learning or equivalent.
• 5 years of experience conducting UX research on products and working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
• Experience in building trusted relationships with directors and C-level stakeholders by developing an understanding of the client business and driving in depth, data-driven insights.
• Understanding and passion for Google products.
• Excellent attention to detail, highly entrepreneurial, creative, open-minded, persistent, and highly collaborative.

About the job

Within the Labs team, we are building products that have the potential to transform how users interact with Google. We are not a “research team” but rather our charter is to drive innovation by building Google products that will have a major impact.

Labs is creating products involving two-sided marketplaces, workflow tools, and advanced language technology. As Engineering Director, you will be responsible for exploring these technologies, and building applications that use them. You will also be responsible for building out our engineering team and working alongside product leadership.

In this role, you will involve application engineering (front and/or back-end), training/integrating Machine Learning models, building workflow tools, and integrating with third-party applications. Given the open-ended nature of the problems, you will need to be comfortable with an ambiguous problem-space development, experimenting with technologies, and working in a cross-functional environment.

Like Google itself, the Creative Lab is ambitious and innovative enough to come up with ideas that push the notion of what is possible and what is practical. We are designers, writers, programmers, filmmakers, producers and business thinkers that spend 99.9% of our time making. We are a small team that pushes for an impact that outweighs our footprint. Our job is to make Google’s magic more magical, help invent Google’s future, and communicate Google’s innovations, intent and ideals in ways that manifest to the world the usefulness of our technologies, products and platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build and structure engineering organizations responsible for building “zero to one” products.
• Design, guide, and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.