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Principal Research Engineer, AI Systems, DeepMind

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Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$307k - $427k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Google DeepMind and Google product and research teams to develop 0-to-1 Agera-powered features and products.
  • Develop across the AI systems stack, including agent harnesses, subagent swarms, structured state, tool execution, retrieval indices, reranking, evaluations, Studio UIs, and model fine-tuning or expertise distillation.
  • Balance exploratory prototyping with clean, scalable software engineering.
  • Lead complex engagements end-to-end, set technical direction, bridge team roadmaps, and drive convergence through working prototypes.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years of experience in engineering or a related function.
  • Preferred experience with agent architectures, multi-agent systems, post-training, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, or large-scale LLM evaluation.
  • Preferred software engineering, systems infrastructure, or AI/ML modeling experience using Python and C++.
  • Preferred technical leadership and experience driving multi-team, cross-functional projects from inception to delivery.
  • Preferred experience with information retrieval, search and ranking systems, clustering, or large-scale data processing infrastructure.

Benefits

  • The posting references Google benefits, along with equity and a 30% bonus target.

Tech Stack

Categories

AI ResearchML Engineering
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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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