Principal Engineer, AI Storage, Google Distributed Cloud

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X In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

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By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Sunnyvale, CA, USA;
Cambridge, MA, USA;
Raleigh, NC, USA;
Durham, NC, USA;
Seattle, WA, USA
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• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of professional experience.
• Experience leading technical innovation in AI labs, AI storage companies, hyperscalers, or directly related AI companies.
• Experience delivering models, agent, other, AI services, or AI infrastructure.
• Experience delivering hyperscale cloud services to enterprise customers.

• Experience with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Generative AI.
• Experience with cloud services and platform development.
• Experience working with partners and developing relationships.
• Experience with “big picture” strategy thinking, enabling teams to deliver management solutions that are effective at scale.
• Ability to simply explain complex business or technical challenges.
• Ability to operate in a complex, fast-moving environment, collaborating across multiple teams and functions within and beyond the company.

With Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), we are creating the industry’s private and hybrid cloud offering that brings our customers Google Cloud’s AI‑led services and infrastructure on an on‑premise platform that is simple, secure, and scalable. We are creating AI capabilities and enabling modernization with a Kubernetes based consistent and open developer experience from edge to cloud that serves government and enterprise customers across the globe.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise‑grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting‑edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

The US base salary range for this full‑time position is $294,000-$414,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Drive the architecture, design, and technology strategy that enables the best customer value in terms of price/performance, security, and reliability, for on‑prem air‑gapped and connected deployments.
• Understand how models work and are changing (i.e., moving to memory, reasoning, and AGI), how customers should choose the best model for their use case, how the infrastructure can be optimized to run the model, how integration with data and security come together, and how to work with AI labs (including Google Deep Mind) to drive model enhancements for customers requiring a distributed cloud on‑prem.
• Understand infrastructure requirements for training, fine‑tuning, and inferencing, with particular technical knowledge in storage architectures and on‑prem landscape, including Lustre, VAST, Weka, etc.

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