Senior Software Engineer, Product Backend - Project Janus

Snapshot:

• Project Janus is a new product development in Gemini App team which leverages the world-leading Gemini model to deliver intelligent automation across web browsers, computers and beyond. 

• We have a few important notes below:
• This is an in office role for MTV. At this time, we are not able to consider additional sites.
• To ensure an equitable process, we are not able to hold informational coffee chats. Please express interest in Grow and the recruiting team will contact you with next steps.
• Due to the volume of applications, we are requesting not to contact the hiring team directly.

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:

• Develop from scratch the next generation of AI technologies that empower Google users
• Work closely with research teams to apply state-of-the-art LLM techniques
• Design, build, and deliver compelling new features for Gemini's applications, prioritizing both performance and seamless user experiences.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (design, product, modeling specialists) to translate user needs into intuitive, valuable app features within the Gemini ecosystem. 
• Proactively participate in code reviews, enforce development best practices, and share your knowledge to raise the team's overall technical expertise.
• Work in a fast paced small "whatever it takes" team environment to rapidly develop a new product

About You:

We are looking for experienced, outstanding, highly motivated backend SWEs to work on the new product

You could be a great match if you:

• Have experience in building using Google backend technologies (e.g. Boq, Gemini API, LMRoot, Manifold, Pod, Uniserve)
• Have experience with building real AI systems or actual agents for products
• Are excited by and experienced with going “zero to one” - creating something new, starting from a set of broad ideas in a small team environment
• Are highly cross-functional and able to work collaboratively across different PAs - http://go/no-jerks
• Are ready to roll up your sleeves and “do the work” within a small-team environment

What makes this job unique at Google?

• A challenging set of Applied ML problems with many unsolved and open-ended questions. In building user-facing products, you will uncover new and challenging research problems to be addressed.
• An opportunity to build something new, rather than an addition to an existing product.
• An opportunity to help grow a team from scratch.
• The possibility of high impact for Google by creating new products that unlock new kinds of value from AI for our users

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $141,000 - $202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.

Application deadline: October 24th, 2025

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