Google

Research Engineer, Gemini Code Post-training, DeepMind

Google$174K — $252K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5 years of experience in software engineering or research focused on machine learning models.
  • Experience with post-training methods, reinforcement learning (RL), or supervised fine-tuning (SFT) for large language models (LLMs).
  • Familiarity with designing and running LLM evaluation benchmarks.

Responsibilities

  • Drive post-training research and engineering using RL and SFT to enhance Gemini coding capabilities across various platforms.
  • Collaborate with Operations Research teams to develop and scale benchmark performance pipelines in Code Arena.
  • Design and maintain evaluation suites and automated benchmarks for agentic coding capabilities.
  • Implement infrastructure, reward models, and workflows for efficient iterative model improvements.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package with health, wellness, and retirement options.
  • Opportunity for career development and continuous learning through training programs.
  • Work in a flexible environment that supports work-life balance.
  • Engagement in collaborative research and publication opportunities with academic partners.
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in software engineering or research developing machine learning models with frameworks such as JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
  • Experience conducting post-training, reinforcement learning (RL), or supervised fine-tuning (SFT) for large language models (LLMs).
  • Experience designing or running LLM evaluation benchmarks and measurement pipelines.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience in agentic coding workflows, code generation, or software engineering tasks across web, mobile, 3D, or game development.
  • Experience with competitive coding benchmarks, Code Arena, or public model leaderboards.
  • Experience scaling distributed training pipelines on TPU or GPU accelerators.
  • Experience with reward modeling, preference optimization, or synthetic data generation for code models.
  • Experience working in fast-paced research environments delivering iterative model releases.


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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

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

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Responsibilities
  • Drive post-training research and engineering using reinforcement learning (RL) and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to advance Gemini coding capabilities across web, 3D, game, and mobile development.
  • Develop and scale agentic post-training pipelines and landing recipes in collaboration with Operations Research (OR) teams to establish industry-leading benchmark performance in Code Arena.
  • Design, build, and maintain frontier evaluation suites and automated benchmarks to measure, stress-test, and improve agentic coding capabilities.
  • Implement training infrastructure, reward models, and data curation workflows to accelerate iterative model improvements from revision to revision.


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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