Forward Deployed Engineer, Kaggle, DeepMind (Fixed-Term Contract)

Google; New York (NY); On-site; USD 174,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for a 12-month fixed-term contract to bridge partner engineering with Kaggle. You will onboard external benchmarks, run systematic evaluations, and deliver high-fidelity signals to model teams.

The role requires strong software and ML experience, collaboration with global partners, and outstanding technical writing to publish tutorials, case studies, and reference implementations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of software development experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
• 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year design/architecture experience.
• Experience with Machine Learning systems or Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Experience in a customer-facing role, managing client relationships or external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the end to end onboarding of critical new benchmarks to the Kaggle platform.
• Drive joint evaluations and benchmarking; build and run systematic evals on partner datasets to deliver signals to modeling teams.
• Author high-visibility case studies, developer blogs, and reference implementations to showcase Gemini's capabilities.
• Build feedback loop tooling; collaborate with product engineering to surface developer feedback patterns at scale.

Skills

Software development

Python/JS/TS

Testing & launch

Design & architecture

ML/LLMs

Customer-facing

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Developer tools & APIs

Job description

Forward Deployed Engineer, Kaggle, DeepMind (Fixed-Term Contract)

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development and experience with coding in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience with Machine Learning systems or Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Experience in a customer-facing role, managing client relationships or external stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience building public benchmarks and evals.
• Experience working with developer tools, APIs, SDKs, or platform integration.
• Ability to collaborate directly with external customers or partners in a technical capacity.
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight across global time zones.
• Excellent technical writing and communication skills, along with the ability to produce documentation, tutorials, or engineering case studies.

About the job

This is a 12-month fixed-term contract position.

Our team works at the intersection of Engineering, Product, and Community. You will work in the emerging benchmark ecosystem to onboard external benchmarks to Kaggle. Through collaborative engineering, joint benchmarking, and feedback loops, we run systematic evaluations to accelerate model capability understanding.

The Forward Deployed Engineer is the technical bridge between DeepMind’s most strategic partners and our model research teams. This role is embedded in the partner’s engineering journey, building joint evals, unblocking complex integrations, and synthesizing deep technical signals to drive model improvements.

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 diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $232000 (USD) + 15% bonus target

Responsibilities

• Own the end to end onboarding of critical new benchmarks to the Kaggle platform.
• Drive joint evaluations and benchmarking, build and run systematic evals on partner-specific datasets to deliver high-fidelity performance signals directly to modeling teams.
• Author high-visibility case studies, developer blogs, and reference implementations to showcase Gemini's production capabilities.
• Build feedback loop tooling, collaborate with product engineering to develop tooling that aggregates and surfaces developer feedback patterns at scale.

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