Software Engineer III, Agent Quality and Efficiency Optimization

Google LLC; Województwo mazowieckie; On-site; PLN 280,000 - 287,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google LLC in Warsaw, Poland is seeking a Software Engineer III focused on Agent Quality and Efficiency Optimization to build and refine scalable AI-powered systems that improve agent performance.

You will collaborate across teams to design, deploy, and measure optimization features, with a strong emphasis on ML, cost efficiency, and reliable production deployments in a fast-growing cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in Go, C++ or Python, or 1 year with an advanced degree.
• 2 years of experience with machine learning, large language models (LLMs), or applied AI.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship agent optimization systems across the Agent Development Kit and Vertex AI serving stack.
• Measure quality, cost, and latency per task to drive engineering work.
• Shape the optimization roadmap and set technical direction for enterprise agents.
• Build benchmark optimization techniques on open source and real workloads.

Skills

Go

C++

Python

ML/AI

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Agent Development Kit

LangGraph

LangChain

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Software Engineer III, Agent Quality and Efficiency Optimization

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• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages such as Go, C++ or Python, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 2 years of experience with machine learning, large language models (LLMs), or applied AI.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
• Experience building, deploying, or optimizing LLM applications or agentic frameworks (e.g., Agent Development Kit, LangGraph, LangChain).
• Experience with one or more of the following: model serving optimization, inference caching, model routing or LLM cost and latency profiling.
• Experience instrumenting, benchmarking, or evaluating ML systems in production.
• Experience with technical leadership, mentoring engineers, or driving cross-team engineering initiatives.
  

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

The Google Cloud AI Research team addresses AI challenges motivated by Google Cloud’s mission of bringing AI to tech, healthcare, finance, retail and many other industries. We work on a range of unique problems focused on research topics that maximize scientific and real-world impact, aiming to push the state-of-the-art in AI and share findings with the broader research community. We also collaborate with product teams to bring innovations to real-world impact that benefits our customers. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Poland: zł280000 - zł287000 (PLN) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• Design, build, and ship agent optimization systems that turn multiple sources of insights (like eval results, production traces, etc.) into persistent improvements, auto-formed skills, recipes for prompt and tool tuning, per-task cost and quality telemetry, smart model routing, durable and deferred execution, and continuous optimization, across the Agent Development Kit and Vertex AI serving stack.
• Measure quality, cost, and latency per task, and use that data to drive engineering work.
• Shape the team's optimization roadmap, and help set technical direction for how enterprise agents get better and cheaper over time.
• Build benchmark optimization techniques on both open source benchmarks and real first-party and enterprise agent workloads to prove quality and efficiency wins hold up together.

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