Staff Software Engineer, AI/ML Quality, Shopping Agent, Cloud Applied AI
Sunnyvale, CA, USA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Kirkland, WA, USA - Experience
- 8 years in software development; 5 years testing and launching software products; 3 years software design and architecture; 5 years leading ML design and end-to-end ML optimization; 2 years with GenAI techniques or related concepts.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads quality engineering for a multimodal Shopping Agent, building evaluation and testing systems to improve accuracy, safety, brand alignment, and customer outcomes.
What you'll do
- Define quality metrics and build automated evaluation pipelines and golden datasets for shopping journeys.
- Optimize foundational models through quality evaluation, prompt and grounding improvements, and collaboration with research teams.
- Develop integration tests for agent actions and ensure interoperability with Customer Service Agent platforms.
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, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
- 5 years leading ML design and optimizing end-to-end Machine Learning, plus 2 years with GenAI techniques or related concepts.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Experience with retail workflows or launching and maintaining high-availability consumer-facing AI products.
Pay
$207000 - $300000 USD base salary
Tools
Gemini, Vertex AI, LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models
AI focus
Quality evaluation and improvement of multimodal generative AI agents and foundational models, including reducing hallucinations and improving shopping outcomes.
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