Software Engineering Manager, YouTube Advanced Capabilities at Google

Seniority in posting: Advanced

Compensation

$262,000 – $364,000/yr

Location: Mountain View, California
Type: Full-time
Level: lead/mgmt
Posted: Sep 9, 2026

Description

Google is hiring a Software Engineering Manager for its YouTube Advanced Capabilities team to lead GenAI creation quality, product metrics, technical strategy, and the production deployment of video generation and agentic video editing models. The role partners with YouTube product and UX teams and DeepMind researchers, directs high-priority projects, and provides technical guidance to team leaders and senior individual contributors. Candidates need a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience, 8 years of software development experience, 2 years of applied ML and GenAI/agentic systems experience, and experience building and scaling machine learning systems.

Required Skills

GenAI
Video generation
Agentic systems
LLM training
Agent benchmarking
Machine learning

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
Required Previous Experiences: 8 years of software development experience
2 years of applied ML and GenAI/agentic systems experience
Experience building, productionizing, and scaling machine learning systems, including video generation, agentic systems, agent benchmarking, agent AutoRaters, or LLM/agent training pipelines
Preferred Qualifications: Experience architecting and evaluating video editing agents and multi-modal agent workflows
Ability to translate product strategy into technical roadmaps and engineering metrics
Ability to navigate cross-functional complexity, partner with product and UX teams, collaborate with DeepMind researchers, manage senior stakeholders, and mentor engineers
Business acumen involving unit economics, return on computation, and model quality versus user engagement