1 day ago
Base Salary
$174k - $252k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead 2–4 week Strike Sprints to prototype agent state machines, tool-use orchestration, and reflection loops.
- Partner with product and engineering teams through Forward Deployed Engineering to convert agentic prototypes into scalable enterprise solutions.
- Architect and build generalizable horizontal agents such as AutoResearch and AutoFounder.
- Develop agent architectures, planning frameworks, and self-improving foundation models for autonomous AI systems.
- Collaborate across Google to disseminate technical playbooks and optionally publish research breakthroughs.
- Independently lead engineering workstreams and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Five years of software development experience, including coding in Python, C++, Java, JavaScript, or R.
- Three years of experience in ML system design and optimizing ML infrastructure, including distributed training, model deployment, evaluation, or data processing.
- Experience developing autonomous agents, multi-agent workflows, or agentic frameworks.
- Experience designing, pre-training, fine-tuning, or evaluating LLMs and multimodal foundation models.
- Preferred: master’s degree or PhD in a relevant technical discipline.
- Preferred: first-author scientific publication submissions on machine learning and NLP agents.
- Preferred: experience driving engineering delivery in rapid SWAT, Pathfinding, or Forward Deployed Engineering environments.
- Preferred: experience building evaluation benchmarks, test harnesses, or simulation environments.
- Preferred: experience with reinforcement learning, reward modeling, RLHF, RLAIF, DPO, and human/AI preference alignment techniques.
Benefits
- US base pay is listed at $174000–$252000, plus a 15% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
Tech Stack
Categories
AI ResearchML Engineering
About Google
Google builds consumer and enterprise software and services including Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, and Google Cloud. Its business model centers on digital advertising and paid cloud, software, and hardware offerings (e.g., Pixel and Nest) for consumers, developers, and organizations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google operates globally as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.