# Principal Engineer, Safeguards

About the job Within the Cloud AI organization, we focus on building highly differentiated, highly scalable, and easy-to-use products and services that enable our customers to transform their business with AI. Products such as Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise comprise a portfolio that spans the needs of Developers, Data Scientists, Operation specialists in a broad range of industries. We not only provide customers with state-of-the-art models, such as Gemini, but also full Agent platforms and applications with strong security and governance. The Principal Engineer, Cloud AI Safeguards is a senior individual contributor and the technical authority for safety and security across the Cloud AI product portfolio, with a primary focus on agentic safety. Reporting to the Senior Director of Cloud AI Safeguards Engineering, this role sets technical direction without managing people: defining architecture, raising the engineering bar, and personally designing and building defenses that meaningfully reduce risk as model capabilities, product surfaces, and adversaries evolve. Agentic systems make the safety problem substantially harder - autonomous tool use, long-horizon planning, and untrusted

- **Id**: 3877015
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/google-principal-engineer-safeguards-3>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sunnyvale, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T14:08:40Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T17:35:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4142
- **Description truncated**: no
- **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

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 134
- **Ghost share**: 0.045
- **Stale share**: 0.739
- **Repost share**: 0.045
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Gemini** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: no
- **Vertex AI** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Management years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T16:41:40Z

## 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

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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