Staff Software Engineer, Gemini App, Horizontal Quality, DeepMind

Google · Mountain View, CA, USA

Our mission is to elevate the Gemini experience by perfectly aligning foundational model behaviors with high-quality data. We drive conversational excellence through thoughtful persona shaping, robust safety enforcement, and clear information architecture. By combining these efforts with rich online and offline signals, we deliver a product that is highly performant and effortlessly intuitive.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer different learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $207,000-$300,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 5 years of experience leading technical strategy and architecting large-scale ML infrastructure (e.g., designing serving layers, model evaluation frameworks, or data processing pipelines).
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
  • 3 years of experience with Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Machine Learning, and related frameworks.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
  • Experience in building and scaling evaluation pipelines (e.g., RLHF, auto-evals, or side-by-side human evaluations) to measure helpfulness and accuracy.
  • Proficiency in advanced prompting techniques and understanding how model fine-tuning, RL, or RAG impacts final response quality.
  • Ability to use SQL, Python, or internal data tools to analyze user behavioral data and "pain points" to identify where the model is failing.
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