Senior Research Scientist, Cloud AI Research
Mountain View, CA, USA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 7, 2026
- Experience
- 2 years of experience developing autonomous agents, multi-agent workflows, or agentic frameworks.
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Conduct agentic AI research and develop autonomous agents and foundation models, translating prototypes into scalable Google Cloud products and publishing research findings.
What you'll do
- Develop agent architectures, planning frameworks, and self-improving foundation models; design vertical and horizontal agents for business and research workflows.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to turn agent prototypes into scalable enterprise solutions.
- Publish research, establish benchmarks, and collaborate across Google and the scientific community.
What they ask for
- PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience developing autonomous agents, multi-agent workflows, or agentic frameworks.
- Experience designing, pre-training, fine-tuning, or evaluating LLMs and multimodal foundation models.
- Experience coding in Python, JavaScript, R, Java, or C++; two or more first-author scientific publication submissions on agents in machine learning and natural language processing.
Nice to have
- Experience building evaluation benchmarks, test harnesses, or simulation environments; or in RL, reward modeling, and preference alignment.
- Experience with inference-time scaling, search-guided decoding, planning algorithms, or safe and reliable AI systems.
Pay
$174000 - $252000 (USD) base salary
Tools
AutoGen, CrewAI, LangGraph, Python, JavaScript, R, Java, C++
AI focus
Foundational agentic research, autonomous AI systems, agent architectures, planning, self-improving foundation models, and domain-specific agents.
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