Senior Staff Research Scientist/Engineer, Consumer Agents Post Training, DeepMind
Mountain View, CA, USA +3 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
Kirkland, WA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
New York, NY, USA - Experience
- 8 years in software development; 5 years with design and architecture, and testing/launching software products. Preferred: 8 years with data structures and algorithms; 5 years in technical leadership; 3 years in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional or cross-business projects.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Research and develop post-training methods, datasets, and evaluation frameworks that turn foundation models into personalized, reliable consumer agents, including work on the Gemini model recipe.
What you'll do
- Lead large-scale agent post-training research from hypothesis formulation through delivery in the Gemini model recipe.
- Design ablation studies and build datasets and evaluation frameworks to test reasoning, reliability, and failure modes.
- Develop research utilities for data analysis and model evaluations, and communicate findings to collaborators.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
- Experience with large language model, reinforcement learning, and deep learning.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
Pay
$262000 - $364000 USD base salary
Tools
Gemini, large language model, reinforcement learning, deep learning
AI focus
Agent post-training and personalization, including reinforcement learning, targeted data creation, persistent context architectures, and evaluation of long-horizon reasoning and agent reliability.
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