Senior Cloud AI Research Scientist — Equity + Impact

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

Job summary

Google Mountain View, CA seeks a Senior Research Scientist for Cloud AI Research. You’ll design and deploy large-scale experiments, advance autonomous agents, and contribute to foundational AI research with real-world impact.

You’ll publish findings, collaborate with product teams, and mentor junior researchers while advancing state-of-the-art in LLMs, multimodal models, and agentic systems at scale.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of 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.
• Two 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

• Conduct foundational agentic research, develop state-of-the-art agent architectures, planning frameworks, and self-improving foundation models to advance autonomous AI systems.
• Solve complex business challenges, design and deliver high-impact 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.

Skills

Autonomous agents

LLMs & multimodal

Publications

AutoGen

CrewAI

LangGraph

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AutoGen

CrewAI

LangGraph

Job description

Google Mountain View, CA seeks a Senior Research Scientist for Cloud AI Research. You’ll design and deploy large-scale experiments, advance autonomous agents, and contribute to foundational AI research with real-world impact.

You’ll publish findings, collaborate with product teams, and mentor junior researchers while advancing state-of-the-art in LLMs, multimodal models, and agentic systems at scale.