Drimva

Google

Engineering Director, Autonomous Cloud

Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026

Experience
15 years of software engineering; 5 years leading frontier-level AI and related technologies; 5 years as a Software Engineering leader in ML Infrastructure, ML or AI for products, or related fields.
Education
PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or another relevant engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

About the job

Leads technical strategy and engineering execution for Autonomous Cloud, advancing agentic development, AI engineering, agent platforms, and evaluation frameworks.

What you'll do

  • Define Autonomous Cloud technical strategy and accelerate agentic development, AI engineering, and agent-harness innovations.
  • Oversee agent-platform integration and agent lifecycles; establish evaluation frameworks as quality gates.
  • Build cross-organizational roadmaps and partner with Cloud AI and Google DeepMind to productionize research and scale agentic development.

What they ask for

  • PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or another relevant engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years of software engineering experience building and working with large-scale systems in a technology organization.
  • 5 years leading frontier-level AI, AI-Engineering, Agentic Engineering, Applied AI solutions, and ML-related technologies for real-world AI/ML problems.
  • 5 years as a Software Engineering leader in ML Infrastructure, ML or AI for products, or related fields; experience with cross-functional technical innovation and leading organizational and technical transformations.

Nice to have

  • Experience managing complex dependencies with research groups and cloud platform teams, and producing software products and large-scale distributed systems.
  • Expertise in autonomous agent frameworks or cloud automation infrastructure at planet scale; Gen AI, ML products, agent frameworks and protocols, RAG, Prompt Engineering, or Evals.

Pay

$307000 - $427000 (USD) base salary

Tools

Agent Platforms, Gemini, MCP, A2A, RAG, Prompt Engineering, Evals, ML Infrastructure

AI focus

Leads Autonomous, Agentic development and AI engineering; scales agent frameworks and lifecycles, establishes evaluation-driven quality practices, and productionizes Google DeepMind research.

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