Staff Software Engineer

Highlights

• Build the evaluation backbone steering Google's frontier AI models to launch.
• Orchestrate large-volume inference to measure intelligence of prototypes.
• Partner with DeepMind researchers to shape model safety and readiness.

What they offer

• 20% bonus target
• equity
• benefits

Ideal candidate

Seasoned engineering leader passionate about rigorous AI evaluation and large-scale systems, thriving in close partnership with researchers to advance safe, capable frontier models.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or related STEM field or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience coding in Python, Java, C or C++
• 5 years of experience designing and launching large-scale production software products or foundation AI systems
• 4 years of experience in software development
• 3 years of experience leading software design and system architecture for high-throughput distributed systems, foundation model runtimes, or client applications
• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, or related field (preferred)
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role setting technical direction and guiding project teams (preferred)
• 3 years of experience driving complex cross-functional initiatives across research, engineering, product and UX (preferred)
• Experience developing, evaluating, or serving large language models, agentic workflows, multimodal pipelines, or AI runtime APIs (preferred)