Android Staff Software Engineer, Gemini Live, Deepmind

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Staff Software Engineer for Gemini Live, a multi-modal AI assistant aiming to be a daily habit for users seeking advice, information, and learning experiences. The role focuses on defining and driving the front-end architecture, engineering an intuitive multi-modal experience, and ensuring low-latency performance for a responsive and natural AI interaction. This involves partnering with GenAI and Model teams to integrate advanced capabilities and establish quality metrics.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and drive the front-end architecture to integrate Gemini Live as the most intelligent, natural, and indispensable real-time conversational assistant, unifying the voice product across App and Devices.
  2. Engineer an intuitive, discoverable multi-modal experience that ensures context and personalization are carried over seamlessly between chat and voice interactions, utilizing relevant visuals to enhance the experience.
  3. Drive the technical development of the non-verbal communication system to ensure low-latency performance to make the AI feel truly responsive and natural.
  4. Partner with GenAI and Model teams to integrate advanced model capabilities and establish necessary client-side instrumentation and quality rubrics to measure and maintain the naturalness and responsiveness of the Gemini Live experience.

Skills

Required

  • software development
  • software testing
  • software launching
  • software design
  • software architecture
  • front-end architecture
  • multi-modal experience
  • low-latency performance
  • GenAI integration
  • model integration
  • client-side instrumentation
  • quality rubrics

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
  • complex, matrixed organization experience
  • cross-functional project experience
  • cross-business project experience
  • UX/Research collaboration
  • debugging tools
  • scalable design
  • performant design
  • product North Star alignment

What the JD emphasized

  • 8 years of experience in software development
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products
  • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture
  • Experience partnering with non-frontend teams (e.g., GenAI, Model, UX/Research) to integrate capabilities and translate complex requirements into working, user-facing features.
  • Experience establishing instrumentation, quality rubrics, and debugging tools to measure and maintain the overall quality of the user experience.

Other signals

  • multi-modal AI assistant
  • real-time conversational assistant
  • integrate advanced model capabilities
  • drive the technical development of the non-verbal communication system