Staff AI Research Scientist, Applied Ai, Google Cloud

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +1

Staff AI Research Scientist role focused on designing, developing, and deploying scalable and agentic AI solutions for enterprise use cases within Google Cloud's Applied AI team. The role involves taking ownership of AI quality for production systems, implementing evaluation frameworks, and advancing AI techniques through experimentation. It requires a PhD, experience with ML algorithms and LLMs, and a publication record, with a focus on applied research and product contribution.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, develop, and deploy scalable and agentic AI solutions for enterprise use cases across domains like finance, sales, marketing, and retail, focusing on innovation and utility, with a user-centric perspective.
  2. Take ownership of AI quality for production systems by defining technical metrics aligned with business goals, implementing evaluation frameworks, designing experiments, analyzing loss patterns, and driving improvements through system changes or training data enhancements.
  3. Implement, optimize, and advance AI techniques, with both training-free and training-based approaches.
  4. Drive progress through experimentation cycles such as proposing hypotheses, designing validation methods, implementing and testing ideas, analyzing results, and iterating quickly to find optimal solutions.
  5. Provide technical leadership on projects and facilitate clarity on goals and timelines. Work with a small, experienced team of developers, researchers, engaging in design and code reviews to foster a culture of continuous improvement.

Skills

Required

  • PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 4 years of experience with research agendas across multiple teams or projects
  • 2 years of experience with machine learning algorithms and tools, or Applied ML (e.g., LLM's, Generative AI, NLP, Recommendations)
  • Experience coding in Python, JavaScript, R, Java, or C++
  • One or more scientific publication submissions for conferences, journals, or public repositories (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.)

Nice to have

  • 2 years of experience in coding and leading multiple research efforts and influencing research direction
  • Experience developing and deploying AI solutions to solve large-scale problems
  • Experience with the entire product development process, from initial ideation and research to prototyping, testing, and final implementation
  • Ability to articulate technical concepts and influence technical directions
  • Excellent communication skills

What the JD emphasized

  • agentic AI solutions
  • AI quality for production systems
  • evaluation frameworks
  • implement, optimize, and advance AI techniques
  • experimentation cycles

Other signals

  • design, develop, and deploy scalable and agentic AI solutions
  • AI quality for production systems
  • implement evaluation frameworks
  • implement, optimize, and advance AI techniques
  • drive progress through experimentation cycles