Staff AI/ML Engineer, Cloud AI Research
Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years in software development; 5 years leading ML system design and infrastructure optimization.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build and deploy advanced AI agents and ML systems, rapidly prototyping solutions and adapting them into scalable enterprise applications.
What you'll do
- Lead short prototyping sprints to develop agent architectures, tool orchestration, and reflection loops.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to deliver scalable enterprise solutions from agent prototypes.
- Develop general-purpose agents, agent frameworks, and foundation models; share technical playbooks across Google.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of software development experience, including coding in Python, C++, Java, JavaScript, or R.
- 5 years leading ML system design and optimizing ML infrastructure.
- Experience developing autonomous agents or multi-agent workflows, and designing, pre-training, fine-tuning, or evaluating LLMs and multimodal foundation models.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or PhD in a related technical discipline.
- Experience with agent evaluation, safe AI, reinforcement learning, or technical leadership in rapid prototyping or Forward Deployed Engineering.
Pay
$207000 - $300000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, C++, Java, JavaScript, R, AutoGen, CrewAI, LangGraph
AI focus
Develop autonomous AI agents, agent architectures and planning frameworks, self-improving foundation models, and enterprise AI applications.
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