Engineering Manager, Machine Learning, Translate

1 Month ago • 8-9 Years • Research & Development

Job Summary

Job Description

This Engineering Manager role at Google's Translate team focuses on leading and mentoring a team of engineers in building and deploying machine learning (ML) models for translation. Responsibilities include creating goals, providing technical guidance, driving execution, and advocating for best practices. The role requires collaboration with researchers, product managers, and geographically distributed teams. The successful candidate will continuously train, evaluate, and launch new translation models to maintain high-quality and efficient translation services across Google's offerings. The work contributes directly to Google's mission of making information universally accessible and useful. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership and technical expertise in ML and software development.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years software development experience (Python, C++, Java)
  • 3+ years technical leadership, 2+ years people management
  • Experience building and deploying ML models
  • Team building, mentoring, and collaboration skills
Good to have:
  • 9+ years software engineering with ML focus
  • 2+ years managing high-performing teams (5-10 contributors)
  • Experience working in a collaborative, cross-functional environment

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java).
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
  • Experience in building and deploying Machine Learning (ML) models.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 9 years of experience in software engineering with a strong focus on ML.
  • 2 years of experience managing and leading high-performing engineering teams of 5-10 contributors.
  • Ability to work effectively in a highly collaborative and cross-functional environment.

About the job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

Machine Translation is foundational to Google's mission of making information universally accessible and useful. Google's Translate team provides machine translation services for all of Google's services and users, covering 240+ languages ,serving billions of translations daily at high quality and efficiency.

In this role, you will continuously train, evaluate and launch new translation models, to ensure that Google's offerings are of best quality and meet the needs of diverse users and clients. You will collaborate with the Research team and other teams to bring innovation.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

  • Create goals for the problem spaces, provide technical guidance, drive execution and advocate adoption of best practices.
  • Build, mentor, and guide a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and supportive environment where everyone can thrive. Invest in their professional development through regular feedback, coaching and opportunities for growth.
  • Collaborate across teams and partner with researchers, product managers, and geographically distributed engineering teams.

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