Forward Deployed Engineer, Kaggle, DeepMind (Fixed-Term Contract)
Mountain View, CA, USA +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
New York, NY, USA - Experience
- 5 years in software development; 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching software products; 1 year in software design and architecture.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Onboard external benchmarks to Kaggle, run partner-specific evaluations, and connect technical findings and developer feedback to model and product teams.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end onboarding of new benchmarks to the Kaggle platform and run systematic joint evaluations on partner datasets.
- Create case studies, developer blogs, and reference implementations showcasing Gemini’s production capabilities.
- Build feedback-loop tooling with product engineering to aggregate and surface developer feedback.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of software development experience, including coding in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
- 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of software design and architecture experience.
- Experience with Machine Learning systems or Large Language Models (LLMs), and in a customer-facing role managing client relationships or external stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience building public benchmarks and evals.
- Experience with developer tools, APIs, SDKs, or platform integration.
Pay
$174000 - $232000 USD base salary
Tools
Kaggle, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Machine Learning systems, Large Language Models (LLMs), APIs, SDKs, Gemini
AI focus
Run benchmark evaluations to assess model capabilities and provide performance signals and feedback to modeling teams.
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