7 days ago
Base Salary
$262k - $364k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect technical frameworks for high-velocity Strike Sprints, including intent-driven AI topologies, reflection loops, and advanced agent state machines.
- Serve as the principal technical anchor for large-scale Forward Deployed Engineering missions and translate agentic prototypes into enterprise solutions.
- Set architectural goals and lead development of generalizable horizontal agents such as AutoResearch and AutoFounder.
- Direct research into agent architectures, novel planning frameworks, and self-improving foundation models.
- Define centrally governed agentic playbooks, guide technical stakeholders across Google, and publish research breakthroughs at ML conferences.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 8 years of software development experience, including Python, C++, Java, or JavaScript.
- At least 8 years of experience leading large-scale ML system design and optimizing ML infrastructure, including distributed training, model deployment, or evaluation.
- 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: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical discipline.
- Preferred: extensive first-author publication experience on machine learning and NLP agents at venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or ACL.
- Preferred: experience as a Senior Staff or Principal technical lead in enterprise SWAT, Pathfinding, or Forward Deployed Engineering environments.
- Preferred: expertise in reinforcement learning, reward modeling, human/AI preference alignment, test-time scaling, search-guided decoding, adversarial robustness, and alignment guardrails.
Benefits
- US base salary of $262000 - $364000, plus a 25% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
- Google benefits are available; the posting directs applicants to learn more about them.
- The role is based within Google Cloud and involves enterprise and Forward Deployed Engineering initiatives.
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.