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XIn most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

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, a

📌 Senior Engineering Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Google
📍 Bengaluru