Senior AI/ML Research Engineer: Autonomous Agent Architect

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

Job summary

Google Cloud AI Research seeks a Senior AI/ML Research Engineer to advance autonomous agent technology, large-scale model systems, and scalable ML infrastructure in Mountain View. You will design agent state machines, lead engineering workstreams, and collaborate with product and research teams to deploy prototypes into enterprise solutions while mentoring junior engineers.

This role emphasizes research-to-implementation, with opportunities to publish breakthroughs and contribute to tool-use

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/AI/ML or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in ML system design and optimizing ML infrastructure.
• Experience developing autonomous agents and multi-agent workflows.
• Experience designing, pre-training and evaluating LLMs and multimodal models.

Responsibilities

• Lead 2–4 week sprints to prototype agent state machines and tool-use orchestration.
• Collaborate with product/engineering to translate prototypes into enterprise solutions.
• Architect generalizable horizontal agents and vertical enterprise solutions.
• Develop agent architectures and self-improving foundation models.
• Share playbooks and potentially publish breakthroughs at ML conferences.

Skills

ML system design

Distributed training

Agent frameworks

LLMs & multimodal

Education

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

Master's or PhD in CS/AI/ML

Tools

AutoGen

CrewAI

LangGraph

ADK

Job description

Google Cloud AI Research seeks a Senior AI/ML Research Engineer to advance autonomous agent technology, large-scale model systems, and scalable ML infrastructure in Mountain View. You will design agent state machines, lead engineering workstreams, and collaborate with product and research teams to deploy prototypes into enterprise solutions while mentoring junior engineers.

This role emphasizes research-to-implementation, with opportunities to publish breakthroughs and contribute to tool-use