Staff Research Scientist/Engineer, Consumer Agents Post Training, DeepMind
Mountain View, CA, USA +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
Kirkland, WA, USA
New York, NY, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA - Experience
- 8 years in software development; 5 years testing and launching software products; 3 years in software design and architecture.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Research and scale post-training methods, datasets, and evaluations that turn foundation models into personalized, reliable consumer agents.
What you'll do
- Drive large-scale agent post-training research from hypothesis to delivery in the Gemini model recipe; design and run ablation studies.
- Build training datasets, evaluation frameworks, and research utilities for long-horizon reasoning, model evaluations, and agent reliability.
- Communicate research findings and collaborate with research scientists and engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products; 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
- 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.
- 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms; 3 years in technical leadership and 3 years working in a complex, matrixed organization.
Pay
$207000 - $300000 (USD) base salary
Tools
large language model, reinforcement learning, deep learning, Gemini
AI focus
Develop post-training methods for autonomous, adaptive consumer agents, focusing on reinforcement learning, targeted data creation, persistent context, personalization, and long-horizon evaluation.
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