Staff AI Systems Engineer — LLM & Agent Innovation

Google LLC; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for AI Research in Switzerland, focusing on next-generation agent capabilities and quality feedback loops. You will work on production-ready agentic systems and collaborate with Google Cloud AI researchers to push the state-of-the-art in AI.

The role emphasizes solving complex problems across ML quality, evaluation frameworks, and data engineering, with opportunities to influence product directions and collaborate with global teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs) and building agents.

Responsibilities

• Execute quality iterations on reference agents identifying potential model or agent framework improvements.
• Source or facilitate creation of datasets for evaluation and training to improve model performance for Cloud customers.
• Design new agentic systems and context engineering algorithms, utilizing existing models and identifying the need for new training/evaluation objectives where necessary.
• Define and implement metrics that correspond to business problems.
• Prototype and iterate on the solution working closely with customers, product management and business development.

Skills

LLMs & agents experience

Python

Token/context/RAG knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for AI Research in Switzerland, focusing on next-generation agent capabilities and quality feedback loops. You will work on production-ready agentic systems and collaborate with Google Cloud AI researchers to push the state-of-the-art in AI.

The role emphasizes solving complex problems across ML quality, evaluation frameworks, and data engineering, with opportunities to influence product directions and collaborate with global teams.