Google Inc. plans to hire 75 workers for its Pittsburgh office as the Internet search giant expands in the Bakery Square development it's called home since 2010.

With the additional hires, Mountain View, Calif.-based Google will employ 350 people in Pittsburgh, said Andrew Moore, vice president of engineering and the head of Google's Pittsburgh office.

“Pittsburgh is one of the most high-tech parts of the country,” Moore said on Friday, during a news conference in Google's offices in Bakery Square, an office and retail complex on Penn Avenue in Larimer. “It's understood to be one of the strongest hot spots for computer science.”

In addition to software engineers, who have made up the majority of Google's employees here, the company plans to hire people “with diverse backgrounds” in this next round of growing its workforce, Moore said.

The company is seeking people for its Shopping Operations team, who will work to categorize and organize shopping search results on the Web, Moore said. Google, which first came to Pittsburgh in 2005, will hire the new workers “as quickly as possible,” he said.

U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Swissvale, told reporters and others gathered for the event that Google has been important in the transformation of the Pittsburgh region to a hotbed for high-tech companies.

“We knew that cutting-edge research and technology was key” for moving Pittsburgh's economy away from its industrial past, Doyle said. And Google “attracts other companies and talented people to be around it.”

Google occupies the top three floors of Bakery Square's seven-story office building. It is building out the fourth floor for its expansion and expects to open the space early in 2014, Moore said.

Bakery Square is owned by Walnut Capital Partners, which began redevelopment of the complex in 2007 and opened it in 2009.

With the office building now fully leased, Walnut Capital has started construction on Bakery Square 2.0 across Penn Avenue at the site of the former Reizenstein Middle School. Apartments at the $100 million development could open in 2014. Offices could open in 2016.

Pittsburgh Councilman Bill Peduto and Walnut Capital managing partner Gregg Perelman have said they hope Google will move into the new Bakery Square when its offices open.

But, Google spokeswoman Rebecca Ginsberg said, “We are currently focused on expanding our current space and have no plans to expand into Bakery Square 2.0 at this time.”

Alex Nixon is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-320-7928 or anixon@tribweb.com.

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