Google

Staff Software Engineer, Agentic, Optimization, Recursive Self-Improvement

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15 hours ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$207k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect closed-loop recursive self-improvement pipelines that diagnose failures, refine instructions and trajectories, synthesize evaluation or training data, and verify gains autonomously.
  • Build multi-agent systems that audit, compress, and de-conflict model context while improving token efficiency and inference speed.
  • Connect inference-time context engineering with supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning to distill rules into model weights.
  • Advance automated optimization methods for production multimodal and reasoning systems.
  • Help define the multi-quarter roadmap across Engineering and Research and establish automated evaluation gates.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • Eight years of software development experience.
  • Five years of experience with ML design and LLM or multimodal agent architectures.
  • Experience using agentic AI frameworks or developer kits to build and deploy autonomous AI systems.
  • Experience with automated LLM evaluation, such as LLM-as-a-Judge, multi-turn user simulation, or Pareto optimization.
  • Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows and designing metrics for AI tools.
  • Eight years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • Three years of experience in technical leadership, leading project teams, and setting technical direction.
  • Three years of experience in complex, matrixed, cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
  • Experience building recursive self-improvement, automated prompt, or agent refinement frameworks such as DSPy, OPRO, TextGrad, Reflexion, or STaR.
  • Experience improving benchmarks for instruction following, multimodal reasoning, and agents.
  • Experience with prompt compression, structured output enforcement, or context-to-weight distillation.

Benefits

  • US base salary of $207000-$300000, plus a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
  • Google Search work supporting products used by billions of people globally.

Categories

AI Research
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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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