Staff Research Engineer, Generative AI, Cloud AI Research, Co-Scientist
Google· Cloud AI Research / Co-Scientist team (Zurich)
ZurichFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Staff Research Engineer focusing on generative AI and multi-agent systems within Google Cloud AI Research. Lead design and implementation of agentic AI systems and bridge research to scalable software, with collaboration across DeepMind, Google Research, and university labs.
Responsibilities
- Own projects end-to-end, from initial scientific research concepts through software design, testing, deployment, and performance analysis.
- Build and deploy agentic AI systems, implementing multi-agent prompting techniques and asynchronous task execution frameworks.
- Drive technical decisions and full-stack software development using Python, C++, and Google's core back-end components.
- Design and establish robust evaluation pipelines, automated test suites, and diagnostic datasets to measure agent performance under extreme scale.
- Collaborate on research with Google DeepMind, Google Research, and university labs to solve complex scientific problems, while mentoring junior engineers and advocating engineering quality.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development, including testing and launching software products.
- 3 years of experience optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
- 2 years of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., Large Language Models, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or GenAI-related concepts (language modeling, computer vision).
Skills
Required:Software developmentGenAI techniques
Nice to have:Deep learning frameworks
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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