Google

Research Engineer, Advancing Agent Quality, DeepMind

Google$174K — $252K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years experience with agentic AI workflows and frameworks
  • 1+ year experience in machine learning and deep learning
  • Experience in software engineering and cloud-based development
  • Proficiency in Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar ML frameworks
  • In-depth knowledge of machine learning algorithms is preferred

Responsibilities

  • Design and scale agent environments and task suites
  • Develop and calibrate AutoRaters against human evaluation
  • Enable agents to generate and iterate on verifiers for problem-solving
  • Create frameworks for trajectory analysis and diagnostic tooling
  • Optimize agent harnesses for continuous self-improvement and performance

Benefits

  • 15% bonus target equity
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Flexible work environment
  • Access to ongoing learning and development programs
  • Collaborative workplace culture
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • 2 years of experience with agentic AI workflows, frameworks, and approaches.
  • 1 year of experience with machine learning and deep learning.
  • Experienece in software engineering and cloud-based development.
  • Experience with Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar ML frameworks.

Preferred qualifications:
  • In-depth knowledge of machine learning algorithms, including supervised learning and reinforcement learning.


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.

The Agent Quality team defines, measures, and advances long-horizon, tool-using capabilities for Google's frontier agents. We build foundational evaluation systems and data flywheels for Gemini Spark-Google's flagship agent for deep research, multi-step problem solving, and workspace integration. Our work encompasses pioneering environment creation (including contexts, autoraters, human evaluations), developing advanced diagnostic tools for agent improvement, and harvesting trajectories and reward signals into SFT and RL post-training to recursively improve core Gemini models.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and scale realistic agent environments and task suites. Research and develop Agentic AutoRaters (AR), calibrate them against human evaluation, and benchmark agent capabilities against industry-leading frontier models.
  • Enable agents to automatically generate and iterate on verifiers (such as automated test cases), facilitating effective exploration and iterative problem-solving.
  • Develop trajectory analysis frameworks and diagnostic tooling to identify root-cause agent failure modes (e.g., passivity, hallucination, or brittle tool execution), and automatically optimize agent harnesses to drive continuous self-improvement.
  • Harvest complex multi-turn interaction trajectories into high-quality datasets and reward signals to power SFT and RL flywheels for frontier Gemini models.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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