MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
* 8 years of experience with managing and growing a team of software engineers,
with experience in performance management and career development.
* 5 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership
role.
* Experience with software engineering in Information Retrieval (IR), Natural
Language Processing (NLP) or Machine Learning (ML).
* Experience with designing, implementing, and optimizing large-scale,
high-performance, distributed search or quality systems in production
environments.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Master's degree or PhD in technology or equivalent practical experience in
Computer Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information
Retrieval, or a related technical field.
* Experience with embedding-based retrieval (EBR), vector search, query
understanding (qNLU), or large language models (LLMs) applied to
search/recommendation systems.
* Experience managing system latency improvements and scalability enhancements.




* Positive understanding of agentic architectures, tool-calling, and
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) grounding layers.
* Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with a proven ability to
align cross-functional stakeholders and navigate competing priorities.

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, ne

📌 Senior Engineering Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Google
📍 Bengaluru