Software Engineering Manager, Business AI Agent
Mountain View, CA, USA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years of coding experience; no years specified for management experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads a software engineering team building Google’s AI-powered commerce agents, including their knowledge, evaluation, and autonomous execution systems.
What you'll do
- Manage and mentor engineers while owning the roadmap and architecture for applied AI, low-latency scoring, and automated evaluation.
- Lead merchant knowledge and control systems, RAG integrations, autonomous execution tooling, and Universal Commerce Protocol integration.
- Partner across teams on ground-truth datasets, dashboards, model standards, and LLM evaluation to improve conversation quality and factuality.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience coding in one or more general-purpose programming languages, focused on backend system architecture.
- Experience building automated LLM evaluation pipelines, AutoRaters, or LLM-specific reliability metrics.
- Experience with backend, distributed systems, or AI/ML systems infrastructure, and managing software engineers.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- Experience with LLM-based AutoRater frameworks, agentic commerce tooling, conversational AI, or RAG.
Pay
$207000 - $300000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Java, C++, Go, RAG, Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)
AI focus
Builds and manages agentic commerce AI, including multi-turn reasoning, tool calling, RAG, autonomous execution, and LLM-based evaluation and AutoRaters.
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