Software Engineer, Gemini App Skills Platform, DeepMind
Mountain View, CA, USA · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
About the job
Build the Gemini App’s skills execution platform, enabling Gemini to discover, route to, and execute capabilities across Google and third-party services.
What you'll do
- Design skill discovery, routing architectures, and low-latency C++ serving components.
- Develop dynamic system instructions, prompt representations, and retrieval schemas for skill catalogs.
- Build automated evaluations, analyze production telemetry, optimize prompts and models, and partner with teams to onboard capabilities.
What they ask for
- Experience developing software with large language models, agentic workflows, tool use, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
- Experience designing evaluation datasets or automated rating systems, or conducting error analysis and prompt optimization for generative models.
Nice to have
- Cross-functional experience taking novel AI features from prototype to production.
- Ability to design experiments, analyze model telemetry, and define reproducible metrics.
Pay
$174000 - $252000 USD base salary
Tools
C++, Python
AI focus
Develop agentic AI capabilities for Gemini, including skill discovery and execution, dynamic context and prompt engineering, routing, retrieval, and evaluation of LLM behavior.
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