Cloud AI Research Scientist: Autonomous Agents & LLMs

Google Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Mountain View, CA invites applications for a Share Research Scientist, Cloud AI Research working across large-scale experiments and agent architectures. You will contribute to autonomous agents, multimodal models, and cutting-edge ML research, publishing findings with the wider community.

You'll collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate research into scalable AI solutions, mentor junior researchers, and help advance Google's AI foundations across cloud platforms and

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience developing autonomous agents, multi-agent workflows, or agentic frameworks (e.g., AutoGen, CrewAI, LangGraph, tool-use/function-calling, or multi-agent RL).
• Experience designing, pre-training, fine-tuning, or evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal foundation models.
• One or more first-author scientific publication submission(s) on agents in machine learning and natural language processing for conferences, journals, or public repositories (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP).

Responsibilities

• Develop agent architectures, planning frameworks, and self-improving foundation models to advance autonomous AI systems.
• Design and deliver vertical agents across core domains (e.g., infrastructure, forecasting, and optimization) targeting operational efficiencies.
• Build generalizable horizontal agents to accelerate researcher velocity and automate end-to-end business value generation across Google.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to translate novel agentic prototypes into scalable enterprise solutions and products.
• Publish breakthroughs at ML conferences, establish benchmarks, and collaborate across Google.

Skills

Autonomous agents

Agentic frameworks

LLMs

Multimodal models

First-author publications

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AutoGen

CrewAI

LangGraph

Tool-use / function calling

Multi-agent RL

Job description

Google Mountain View, CA invites applications for a Share Research Scientist, Cloud AI Research working across large-scale experiments and agent architectures. You will contribute to autonomous agents, multimodal models, and cutting-edge ML research, publishing findings with the wider community.

You'll collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate research into scalable AI solutions, mentor junior researchers, and help advance Google's AI foundations across cloud platforms and