Staff AI Platform Architect – Agentic SDLC Foundations

Google; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in the United States is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Agentic SDLC Foundations team. You will lead architecture, evaluation, and quality engineering for Google’s developer agent ecosystem, bridging experimental AI prototypes with production-grade autonomous systems and establishing HITL guardrails.

The role emphasizes automated evaluation harnesses, benchmark suites, and reliable agent performance across critical engineering workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale production developer agents, establishing patterns for trajectory planning, tool selection, and state recovery.
• Implement intelligent HITL approval gates, intent disambiguation, and graceful to ensure safe execution of actions.
• Architect evaluation pipelines that grade multi-step trajectories, tool-call fidelity, intermediate states, and reasoning paths beyond static input/output matching.
• Establish closed-loop pipelines converting execution failures and human corrections into golden datasets, prompt/tool-schema optimizations, and fine-tuning cycles.
• Curate end-to-end benchmarks replicating complex developer tasks to evaluate agent capabilities and establish standardized Key Performance Indicator (KPIs) across workflows.

Skills

ML design

ML infrastructure

Model deployment

Data processing

Debugging

Fine tuning

Generative AI

LLM interfaces

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Job description

Google in the United States is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Agentic SDLC Foundations team. You will lead architecture, evaluation, and quality engineering for Google’s developer agent ecosystem, bridging experimental AI prototypes with production-grade autonomous systems and establishing HITL guardrails.

The role emphasizes automated evaluation harnesses, benchmark suites, and reliable agent performance across critical engineering workflows.