Staff Research Engineer, Applied AI, DeepMind
Mountain View, CA, USA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years of software development experience and 5 years building, training, and deploying machine learning models in production.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads development and deployment of generative AI applications, translating research into production products and collaborating with partners and internal teams.
What you'll do
- Define product objectives and technical designs with external partners and cross-functional teams.
- Curate datasets, design evaluations, and fine-tune models for real-world performance.
- Lead development of AI agents and workflows, and share deployment insights with research teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of software development experience, including system design, data structures, and algorithms.
- 5 years of experience building, training, and deploying machine learning models into production environments.
Nice to have
- Experience with Generative AI/LLMs, including fine-tuning, dataset curation, and evaluation pipelines.
- Experience architecting, prototyping, and shipping complex ML systems; knowledge of Transformers, Diffusion, or LLMs.
Pay
$207000 - $300000 USD base salary
Tools
Generative AI, LLMs, Transformers, Diffusion
AI focus
Builds and deploys generative AI applications, agents, and workflows; curates datasets, evaluates and fine-tunes models, and informs frontier model development with real-world deployment insights.
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