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Google Hire: AI Answers Quality Senior Software Engineer | SE Roundtable ($240k pa)
Posted by on January 6, 2026 at 7:47 pmThanks to u/rustybrick and u/gagan_ghotra/ on X
The job post says "Help the AI Answers Quality team deliver AI Overviews to users' hard and complicated queries on the SRP and in AI Mode."
The job responsibilities include:
- Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
- Write and test product or system development code.
- Generate safe and helpful content on the Search Results Page (SRP) by leveraging existing Search signals, building new ones, and training the underlying LLMs.
- Deliver improvements for GenAI features on the SRP, from fine-tuning the underlying models to determining if summaries are appropriate to be displayed. This will involve a mix of infrastructure work across the stack, as well as quality analysis (e.g., investigating responses to determine what went wrong and how result quality can be improved on a systematic level).
- Improve measurements, run live experiments, ensure launches continue to remain effective and protect against regressions, develop custom autoraters and improve existing ones.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $166,000-$244,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. The job seems to be at the Boston location in Cambridge, MA.
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Great so now I have to get cable instead of ask AI questions, point and laugh. What about the dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark?
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This is a nothingburger, IMO. I think what this article is implying is that “Google is hiring for AI overviews, therefore it’s about to ruin SEO even more.”
Google has been hiring ML/AI engineers for 10+ years to improve the quality of search results, snippets, and now AI overviews.
It’s obvious Google is going to continue improving its AI overviews, and one job posting for a mid-level engineer at a company with 200k employees isn’t a seismic shift in how they view the future of SEO or search results.
Google regularly hires highly-skilled engineers for products that may or may not work long-term (Chromecast, Google Podcasts, Domains, Jamboard, etc.)
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