Cloud AI Research Scientist: Autonomous Agents & LLMs

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target

Benefits

Job summary

Google in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Research Scientist for Cloud AI Research to advance autonomous agents, multi-agent workflows, and large language/multimodal models. You will design experiments, prototype architectures, and publish findings while collaborating with product and engineering teams.

This role offers exciting work on real-world problems across ML, NLP, hardware and software performance, with opportunities to present at conferences and contribute to the wider research community.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent practical experience required.
• Experience developing autonomous agents or multi-agent workflows.
• Experience designing and evaluating LLMs and multimodal models.
• Proficient in Python, JavaScript, R, Java, or C++.
• First-author ML/NLP publications at major venues.

Responsibilities

• Develop agent architectures and self-improving foundation models.
• Design vertical agents for infrastructure, forecasting, and optimization.
• Build horizontal agents to accelerate researcher velocity.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to scale prototypes.
• Publish breakthroughs at ML conferences and establish benchmarks.

Skills

Python

Java

JavaScript

C++

ML research

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AutoGen

CrewAI

LangGraph

tool-use/function-calling

multi-agent RL

Job description

Google in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Research Scientist for Cloud AI Research to advance autonomous agents, multi-agent workflows, and large language/multimodal models. You will design experiments, prototype architectures, and publish findings while collaborating with product and engineering teams.

This role offers exciting work on real-world problems across ML, NLP, hardware and software performance, with opportunities to present at conferences and contribute to the wider research community.