Staff Software Engineer, Gemini Evals, GenAI, DeepMind

About the Job

At Google DeepMind our mission is to build the world's first general-purpose learning agent. Central to this mission is the complex task of measuring the intelligence of our prototypes. As a Software Engineer, you will be working with the cutting edge AI agents developed by our exceptional team of Machine Learning and Neuroscience research scientists. Your responsibilities will include everything from creating systems for agent testing using 2D and 3D games to developing test problems within physics simulators. You will create graphical visualization of results, build competitive agent leaderboards and test new algorithms on robots. To succeed in this role you will need to have a strong foundation in software engineering and enjoy working on a wide range of challenging problems within a mission-driven team.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Design and optimize distributed evaluation execution engines capable of orchestrating large volumes of inference steps across TPU and Google compute unit (GCU) pools with high throughput and low latency.
• Build foundational abstractions to evaluate complex LLM agent loops, tool use, and automated LLM-as-a-judge rating systems.
• Design error classification, automated retry policies, and observability dashboards to maintain strict service level objective (SLOs) for evaluation pipeline success rates.
• Partner closely with GDM research scientists and Data Science teams to anticipate frontier model evaluation requirements and translate them into elegant infrastructure solutions.
• Mentor fellow engineers, set high standards for code quality (Python in Google3), and advocate testing and system design practices.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in designing, building, and maintaining high-performance distributed systems or processing pipelines.
• Experience leading architectural migrations or cross-team infrastructure projects.
• Proficiency in Python.