12 hours ago
Base Salary
$207k - $300k/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 turn agentic prototypes into scalable enterprise solutions.
- 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 share technical playbooks and agentic frameworks and optionally publish research breakthroughs.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 8 years of software development experience, including coding in Python, C++, Java, JavaScript, or R.
- At least 5 years leading 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 large language models and multimodal foundation models.
- Preferred: Master's degree or PhD in a relevant technical discipline.
- Preferred: experience with test-time scaling, search-guided decoding, safe AI, evaluation benchmarks, test harnesses, simulation environments, reinforcement learning, reward modeling, and human or AI preference alignment.
- Preferred: Staff technical leadership in SWAT, Pathfinding, or Forward Deployed Engineering environments and robust production coding experience.
- Preferred: two or more first-author scientific publication submissions on machine learning agents and natural language processing.
Benefits
- Google benefits are provided.
- US base salary is listed as $207000–$300000, with a 20% 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.