Staff Software Engineer

Google Google · Big Tech · Mountain View, CA +1

Staff Software Engineer at Google DeepMind focused on building tools and best practices for AI research iteration, architecting data pipelines for training and evaluation, and developing evaluation benchmarks. The role involves collaborating with researchers to ship product features and providing technical leadership, with a strong emphasis on system design, scalability, and maintainability.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build tools and promulgate best practices for rapid research iteration for researchers building cutting-edge AI systems
  2. Architect scalable data pipelines and user models for high-fidelity training, simulation, and performance evaluation
  3. Develop robust evaluation benchmarks, autoraters, and adversarial tests to measure and improve personalization quality
  4. Collaborate with research scientists and engineers to ship product features and provide technical leadership on high-impact projects
  5. Review code to ensure best practices and mentor team members on system design and engineering excellence. Define the technical vision and system architecture for key components, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability.

Skills

Required

  • Software product lifecycle management
  • Python
  • C++
  • Algorithm and data structure design
  • Software design and architecture
  • Data pipeline development

Nice to have

  • AI systems
  • training
  • simulation
  • performance evaluation
  • evaluation benchmarks
  • autoraters
  • adversarial tests
  • personalization quality
  • system design
  • scalability
  • maintainability

What the JD emphasized

  • building cutting-edge AI systems
  • rapid research iteration
  • high-fidelity training
  • performance evaluation
  • robust evaluation benchmarks
  • personalization quality
  • technical leadership
  • system design
  • engineering excellence
  • technical vision
  • system architecture
  • long-term scalability
  • maintainability

Other signals

  • building cutting-edge AI systems
  • shipping product features
  • technical leadership
  • defining technical vision and system architecture