Software Engineer, Gemini

Snapshot

The Gemini Global team’s mission is to be the forerunner in bringing AI technology to users and pushing the boundaries of what is possible in a scalable manner across 46+ languages. The sheer diversity of locales makes scalability across a breadth of areas including modeling, safety, factuality, feature development, data generation, evaluations, etc challenging.

Due to the rapid pace at which the LLMs space is evolving, there is an increasing need to be on top of both industry and academic trends. The candidate will work closely with both the SWE team and Research teams towards bringing in the cutting edge technologies to mainstream products (Gemini App).

About Us

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind, we’re a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, and collaborate with others on critical challenges, ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.

The Role

We are looking for candidates who have a passion and a strong track record of developing on top of cutting edge technologies and bringing it to users. They are expected to thrive in ambiguity, excited about finding problems, analyzing, scoping them out and coming up with novel ideas, systematically experimenting & evaluating them and iterating till we make it a high quality experience for our users.

What makes this job unique at Google?

• Working on state of the art technologies
• Direct impact on a large user base
• Strong mission aligned with company - make information accessible to everyone
• Startup like experience - working on product in early stages, ownership
• Strong cross functional support locally - UX, UXR, PM, PGM, Analyst, gTech, marketing
• Unique opportunity to collaborate with global experts and contribute to cutting-edge AI development.

Key responsibilities:

• Demonstrate technical leadership in building innovative features for the target users
• Lead the full-stack implementation, from front-end, back-end, to the model, to deliver high quality products 
• Collaborate with researchers to understand cutting-edge innovation in generative AI, and apply it to the app
• Conduct in-depth data analysis to identify headroom for the feature, and develop a strategy to design and implement solutions to improve the quality
• Collaborate with partner teams to enable Gemini features in all languages

About You

This role is ideal for an individual who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced, and dynamic environment and is passionate about leveraging AI to create impactful solutions. You are a creative problem-solver who can distill big-picture challenges into tractable projects, empowering your team to succeed. You value continuous learning, teamwork, and making a positive contribution to society.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
• 3 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, GO, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS, etc.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• Ability to thrive and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders

In addition, the following would be an advantage: 

• Hands-on experience with prompt engineering and post-training techniques for large language models, including data pipeline and evaluation methodologies.
• Experience with ML frameworks such as JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
• Experience training and deploying large-scale models

At Google DeepMind, we value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.