Staff Applied AI Engineer — Generative ML in Production

Google Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind is seeking a Staff Research Engineer, Applied AI to lead development and deployment of novel AI applications, leveraging Google's generative AI models. You will rapidly develop new features and collaborate across partner teams to deliver solutions with real-world impact.

This role emphasizes translating research into production, building AI-powered software, and scaling from concept to deployment in early-stage environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience with system design, data structures and algorithms.
• 5 years building, training, and deploying ML models into production.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with multiple external parties and internal cross-functional teams to navigate ambiguity, deeply understand real-world issues, and define clear product objectives and technical designs.
• Drive the curation of specialized datasets, design evaluations across industry verticals, and execute model fine-tuning to achieve optimal real-world performance.
• Lead the engineering and development of novel solutions from 0 to 1, utilizing internal platforms and tools to build sophisticated agents and workflows powered by DeepMindfoundation models.
• Synthesize and upstream learnings from third-party partners to our core research teams, by sharing real-world evaluations, edge cases, and deployment signals, which can inform the development of future frontier models.
• Act as a technical leader in the applied AI space, setting best practices for generative AI deployment and demonstrating the peak capabilities of frontier models in solving high-impact problems end-to-end.

Skills

Software development

System design

Data structures

Algorithms

ML production

Generative AI/LLMs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Job description

Google DeepMind is seeking a Staff Research Engineer, Applied AI to lead development and deployment of novel AI applications, leveraging Google's generative AI models. You will rapidly develop new features and collaborate across partner teams to deliver solutions with real-world impact.

This role emphasizes translating research into production, building AI-powered software, and scaling from concept to deployment in early-stage environments.