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.




- Valuable 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, networ

📌 Senior Engineering Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Google
📍 Bengaluru