Principal Engineer, Ads DevAI Platform

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or other relevant

engineering discipline or equivalent practical experience.

* 15 years of professional experience in engineering.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering.

* Experience providing technical leadership across a larger organization,

including motivating others at all levels by creating a shared sense of

vision and purpose.

* Knowledge of Google Ads products, the ecosystems our products and users exist

in, and our competitors and their products.

* Ability to balance detailed, technical guidance with “big picture” strategy.

* Thought leadership to identify and design problems commensurate with PE scope

and difficulty and a desire to solve hard engineering problems.

* A demonstrated track record of technical innovation within large, complex,

and cross-functional engineering environments.

ABOUT THE JOB:

Users come first at Google. Nowhere is this more important than in our

Advertising: we believe that ads and commercial information can be highly useful

to our users, especially when that information is relevant to what our users

wish to find or do. Advertisers worldwide use Google Ads to promote their

products; publishers use AdSense to serve relevant ads on their website; and

businesses around the world use our products (like Google Shopping, and Google

Wallet) to support their online businesses and bring users into their offline

stores. We are constantly innovating to deliver the most effective advertising

and commerce opportunities of tomorrow.

The Ads DevAI Platform team enables Ads to leverage the power of LLMs to

accelerate optimizations, infra migrations, resource efficiency and more. The

team builds the infrastructure and marquee agents required to enable AI-powered

acceleration for Ads engineering workflows.

The Ads Platform team is seeking a strong senior technical leader to design and

accelerate Ads engineering workflows using AI.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that

connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google.

We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products

including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as

analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses

with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to

large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver

measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills,

experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $307000 - $427000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Design and build the foundational DevAI infrastructure for Ads, ensuring

extensibility, applicability, and maximum ROI across all business verticals

and functions.

* Provide technical leadership and uber-TL oversight for cross-cutting Ads

Internal AI projects, including marquee agents, AI-friendly infrastructure,

and strategic DevAI big bets.

* Drive the transition toward AI-forward architecture and self-managing

codebases by enabling agentic evaluation-driven development, skills, and

context integration.

* Lead the technical strategy and development for the DevAI platform and custom

agents, while mentoring Business Account Managers (BAM) AI across Ads

infrastructure organizations.

* Collaborate with uber-TLs across Ads PAGs, Core, and GDM to influence

roadmaps, technical direction, and Google's broader Buying platforms and Ads

vision.