Staff Software Engineer, Applied Research, Foundation User Models

Benefits

Parental leave

18 weeks Source: https://blog.google/company-news/outreach-and-initiatives/diversity/international-womens-day-2022/. source Last checked May 7, 2026.

Non-birth-parent leave

18 weeks Source: https://blog.google/company-news/outreach-and-initiatives/diversity/international-womens-day-2022/. source Last checked May 7, 2026.

Family-building benefits

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Verification

Source-linked checked May 7, 2026

Salary

$207K-$301K not verified - source not recorded; timestamp not recorded

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

118% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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About this role

Staff Software Engineer, Applied Research, Foundation User Models Mountain View, CA, USA Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward. We are the Recommendations Machine Learning (RecML) team in Core ML's Applied ML organization. Our mission is to accelerate product innovations through ML for recommendations and user modeling. We collaborate with various Alphabet product areas and partner with them to help accelerate product innovations through applied research in recommendations and user modeling. We also generalize successful innovations into standardized, maintainable, and production-grade solutions for use by other teams and products. 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.

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