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Distinguished Engineer

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Distinguished Engineer in USA

  • Mountain View, CA

Responsibilities

  • Drive the transition to Autonomous Defense using state-of-the-art AI, foundation models, and adaptive security architectures.
  • Define and architect Google’s technical paradigm for Agentic Safety, including security guardrails, policy enforcement engines, sandboxed runtime environments, and protocol security.
  • Translate AI/ML and cybersecurity research into robust, high-throughput, production-grade defenses.
  • Lead cross-product architectural alignment and serve as a technical bridge across App and Ecosystem Trust, Platforms & Devices, Android Platform, Google Play, DeepMind, Central Security, and Google Cloud.
  • Sponsor, coach, and elevate senior engineering talent globally.
  • Represent Google with external industry consortia, academic institutions, standards bodies, and regulatory and technical forums.

Requirements

  • 20 years of experience bringing systems thinking, business acumen, and technical acumen to platform development.
  • Experience in Trust & Safety, mobile security, privacy, or related domains.
  • Experience leading innovation and leveraging ML/AI in technical environments.
  • Experience managing teams and working in consumer marketplaces.
  • Deep expertise in agentic AI runtime security, sandboxing, protocol verification, and adversarial machine learning defenses.
  • Proven success leading complex, multi-year, cross-product technical transformations and driving architectural alignment across global engineering hubs.
  • Preferred: Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Machine Learning, or a related field.
  • Preferred: executive communication and influence experience with VP/SVP engineering leaders, product executives, and advanced AI research organizations.
  • Preferred: recognized industry authority with contributions to security standards, developer ecosystems, technical advisory boards, peer-reviewed publications, or cybersecurity or AI safety patents.

Benefits

  • Google benefits are referenced in the posting.

Salary: $550k - $550k/yr

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