Google

Staff Research Engineer

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1 day ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$207k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead foundational research in learning, uncertainty estimation, and automated system diagnosis for robust perception and decision-making.
  • Develop methods for out-of-distribution detection, active learning, multimodal retrieval, uncertainty quantification, and sensor-to-perception-to-action calibration.
  • Design, optimize, and deploy scalable or real-time ML systems for autonomous infrastructure and edge hardware.
  • Partner with research leads, software engineers, and product teams to integrate research breakthroughs into production systems.
  • Author papers at premier machine learning, computer vision, and robotics venues and contribute code, models, and datasets.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 6 years of experience leading research agendas, developing scalable algorithms, or deploying ML models in production or applied research environments.
  • Experience with deep learning frameworks such as JAX and TensorFlow and with distributed training and evaluation pipelines.
  • At least one scientific publication submission to a conference, journal, or public repository.
  • Preferred: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred: 6 years of experience leading complex research projects and setting technical direction in autonomous systems or mobile robotics.
  • Preferred: experience with neural architecture design, distillation, optimization, deep learning, uncertainty quantification, model calibration, out-of-distribution diagnosis, self-supervised learning, multimodal foundation models, and foundational representations.

Benefits

  • US base pay is listed at $207000–$300000, plus a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits.

Tech Stack

TensorFlow

Categories

AI ResearchRobotics
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About Google

10,000+ employees

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.

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