# Principal Engineer, AI Research and Development

About the job As a Principal Engineer for AI and Infrastructure Research and Development, you will bring deep systems accuracy to agent scale, connecting cutting-edge model research to large-scale production platforms. In this role, you will define the technical strategy bridging systems infrastructure and agent architectures, such as model inference acceleration, simulation-driven infrastructure optimization, and end-to-end platform efficiency. You will establish the engineering foundations and shared frameworks that enable internal organizations to deploy autonomous agents safely, robustly, and at hyperscale. Additionally, you will serve as an executive technical advisor and external thought leader, engaging C-suite customers on advanced architecture, delivering keynote perspectives, and shaping industry and governance standards while driving strategic alignment across DeepMind, Core, and Google Cloud. The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud custom

- **Id**: 4201309
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/google-principal-engineer-ai-research-and-development>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mountain View, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T14:07:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T22:16:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
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- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Operating Systems, Video & Photo Sharing

## Company

- **Id**: 82
- **Name**: Google
- **Domain**: google.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/google>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

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- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 131
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- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: no
- **Outlook** — Optional: no
- **TPU** — Optional: no
- **Vertex AI** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T22:16:07Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 8,371 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 8371

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- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T00:16:50Z

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