Staff Software Engineer, Personal Health Agent

CompanyGoogle

LocationLondon, England, United Kingdom

Posted At1/23/2026

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Programmers and software development professionals

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£54,700 (£28.05 per hour)

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Description

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in software development.
7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, large-scale system architecture, and working with ML infrastructure.
5 years of experience with design and architecture, and testing/launching software products.
Experience in shipping large-scale, production AI/ML systems (e.g., recommendation systems, NLP, large models).

Preferred qualifications:

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering or Computer Science, with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), or Large Language Models (LLMs).
8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
3 years of experience working in an organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
Experience designing or implementing agent-based architectures or productionizing LLMs.

Experience shipping consumer-facing products.

About The Job

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.

In Google's Platforms and Devices (P&D) Health team, our mission is to empower users to live longer and healthier lives through a deeply personalized, AI-powered health experience. We are building the next generation of personal wellness tools, starting with our flagship Fitness Coach and Sleep Coach products. We are bringing together user’s health data from across several sources, best sensing inputs from our first-party (1P) wearables and generative AI to help our users derive meaning from their data and offer them a truly personalized coaching experience.

The Health Platforms and Devices team builds innovative products and services that help our users live longer, healthier lives. We bring together the best of Google technologies and AI, health behavior science, and user-centered design to help users organize the health and wellness data, get insight from it, and take action toward their health goals. We do this with a suite of apps, services, and health wearables. We aim to make consumer health more personal, proactive, and actionable.

Responsibilities

Develop and communicate the long-term technical goal and roadmap for the unified Personal Health Agent (PHA) architecture for Fitness and Sleep coach in partnership with other leads.
Act as the key technical authority for the agentic platform that delivers PHA. Build and grow the technical expertise in the broader engineering organization to deliver agentic capabilities. Be a role model for engineering excellence in all dimensions.
Lead the technical effort to productionize novel agent capabilities from Google Deepmind (GDM) and research. Evaluate new algorithms and agent tasks, define integration paths, and create a "simplified eval story" to validate them for clinical and product readiness.
Partner with engineering organization leads, product, UXR, clinical safety to align product roadmap with technical strategy.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .