Principal Engineer, Agentic Platforms, Ads

Responsibilities

• Design and build the foundational DevAI infrastructure for Ads, ensuring extensibility, applicability, and maximum ROI across all business verticals and functions.
• Provide technical leadership and uber-TL oversight for cross-cutting Ads Internal AI projects, including marquee agents, AI-friendly infrastructure, and strategic DevAI big bets.
• Drive the transition toward AI-forward architecture and self-managing codebases by enabling agentic evaluation-driven development, skills, and context integration.
• Lead the technical strategy and development for the DevAI platform and custom agents.
• Collaborate with uber-TLs across Ads PAGs, Core, and GDM to influence roadmaps, technical direction, and Google's broader Buying platforms and Ads vision.
• - Design and build the foundational DevAI infrastructure for Ads, ensuring extensibility, applicability, and maximum ROI across all business verticals and functions. - Provide technical leadership and uber-TL oversight for cross-cutting Ads Internal AI projects, including marquee agents, AI-friendly infrastructure, and strategic DevAI big bets. - Drive the transition toward AI-forward architecture and self-managing codebases by enabling agentic evaluation-driven development, skills, and context integration. - Lead the technical strategy and development for the DevAI platform and custom agents. - Collaborate with uber-TLs across Ads PAGs, Core, and GDM to influence roadmaps, technical direction, and Google's broader Buying platforms and Ads vision.

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Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or other relevant engineering discipline or equivalent practical experience. - 15 years of professional experience in engineering. Preferred qualifications: - Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering. - Experience providing technical leadership across a larger organization, including motivating others at all levels by creating a shared sense of vision and purpose. - Knowledge of Google Ads products, the ecosystems our products and users exist in, and our competitors and their products. - Ability to balance detailed, technical guidance with “big picture” strategy. - Thought leadership to identify and design problems commensurate with PE scope and difficulty and a desire to solve hard engineering problems. - A demonstrated track record of technical innovation within large, complex, and cross-functional engineering environments.