Engineering Manager, NIC Pipeline
Google· Internet & Cloud Services· Aug 17, 2026 · 2mo agoPosted 71 days ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
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Full-time
Manager
$160K–$215K est.
8+ years exp
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Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.
With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.
Software Platforms for IPUs and Network Interface Cards (NICs) (SPIN) team enables networking and offload capabilities for Google and Google's cloud customers. SmartNICs/IPUs provide novel hardware acceleration and enhanced security isolation properties for Google's workloads. Our team is responsible for software that runs on Google's entire fleet of NICs, and as such is engineered to be highly reliable, performant and efficient. You will have an opportunity to work on the bleeding edge of SmartNICs with this team and deliver software with tremendous impact to Google and its customers.
The Google Cloud AI Research team addresses AI challenges motivated by Google Cloud’s mission of bringing AI to tech, healthcare, finance, retail and many other industries. We work on a range of unique problems focused on research topics that maximize scientific and real-world impact, aiming to push the AI and share findings with the broader research community. We also collaborate with product teams to bring innovations to real-world impact that benefits our customers.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
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• Advocate the technical strategy for the complete NIC pipeline team, ensuring architectural soundness across all elements, working with various teams within SPIN as well as partner teams in PLANET like Promethium, RDMA, Pony/BaMM2, etc.
• Define and uphold end-to-end performance and reliability standards.
• Collaborate with partner teams to ensure smooth interplay across components within the pipeline.
• Lead cross-team efforts to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues affecting the pipeline's operation.
• Ensure the readiness and stability of the NIC controlplane and the overall pipeline for new NIC NPIs.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development, including C/C++ in a Linux environment.
• 7 years of experience working with embedded operating systems and firmware development.
• 5 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience with embedded systems and networking.
Minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development, including C/C++ in a Linux environment.
• 7 years of experience working with embedded operating systems and firmware development.
• 5 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience with embedded systems and networking.
Preferred qualifications:
• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience with SmartNICs.
• Experience managing multiple teams and leading managers to build productive and efficient teams.
• Expertise with C/C++ and Linux.
• Expertise with NICs and embedded software development lifecycle in general.
• Passionate about ensuring things work well end-to-end, and values a generalist software engineer perspective to ensure this happens.
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