Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience designing, constructing, and deploying evaluation frameworks that capture programmatic or algorithmic performance.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience training and fine-tuning models in environments with accelerators, with a track record of deploying production-grade AI agents that manage tool-use (function calling) and complex state management.

About the job

At Google, research-focused Software Engineers are embedded throughout the company, allowing them to setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly. Ideas may come from internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, engineers work on real-world problems including artificial intelligence, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. But you stay connected to your research roots as an active contributor to the wider research community by partnering with universities and publishing papers.

Responsibilities

• Drive research on post-training techniques (e.g., RL, SFT, and preference optimization) specifically tailored for personalization scenarios.
• Develop novel evaluation frameworks to measure model quality against user behaviors/feedback.
• Design and train agents capable of orchestrating tools and APIs to deliver hyper-personalized experiences.