Senior AI/ML Engineer: Autonomous Agents & Prototypes

Google LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Mountain View seeks software engineers specializing in AI and ML with a focus on agentic systems. You will lead rapid prototyping of agent state machines, tool orchestration, and reflection loops while embedding into cross-functional teams to deliver scalable enterprise AI solutions.

The role emphasizes designing and evaluating LLMs and multimodal models, building complex evaluation benchmarks, and mentoring junior engineers in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Five years of software development experience with coding in Python/C++/Java/JavaScript/R.
• Three years in ML system design and optimizing ML infrastructure.
• Experience developing autonomous agents or multi-agent workflows.
• Experience designing, pre-training, fine-tuning or evaluating LLMs and multimodal models.

Responsibilities

• Lead rapid Strike Sprints to prototype agent state machines and tool-use orchestration.
• Partner with product and engineering teams via FDE to deploy prototypes at scale.
• Architect horizontal agents (AutoResearch/AutoFounder) to boost velocity.
• Develop agent architectures and self-improving foundation models.
• Collaborate across Google to publish breakthroughs at ML conferences.

Skills

Software development

ML system design

Agentic frameworks

LLMs & multimodal models

Python

C++

Java

JavaScript

R

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/ML or equivalent

Master's or PhD in CS/AI/ML (preferred)

Job description

Google LLC in Mountain View seeks software engineers specializing in AI and ML with a focus on agentic systems. You will lead rapid prototyping of agent state machines, tool orchestration, and reflection loops while embedding into cross-functional teams to deliver scalable enterprise AI solutions.

The role emphasizes designing and evaluating LLMs and multimodal models, building complex evaluation benchmarks, and mentoring junior engineers in a fast-paced environment.