Software Engineer, Gemini App Skills Platform, DeepMind
Mountain View, CA, USA$174k - $252kFull-timePosted 3d ago
About the role
Software Engineer role at DeepMind for the Gemini App Skills Platform, focusing on extensible execution layer, skill discovery, and evaluation frameworks to enable action-oriented AI capabilities across Gemini.
Responsibilities
- Design and build intelligent skill discovery, hybrid routing architectures, and low-latency C++ serving components across Gemini on web, mobile, and Chrome.
- Pioneer dynamic system instructions, prompt representations, and semantic retrieval schemas for expanding skill catalogs without quality regressions.
- Design automated evaluation frameworks (auto-raters, simulated environments, and benchmarking suites) to measure triggering precision, multi-turn tool use, and parameter validity.
- Perform in-depth loss analysis on production telemetry, drive iterative prompt/model hill-climbing to surpass quality thresholds, and set standards for system reliability and clean architecture.
- Partner with DeepMind Research, Search, Vertical teams, and external Engineering teams to onboard new modular capabilities onto the platform.
Qualifications
- Experience developing software with large language models, agentic workflows, tool use, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
- Experience designing evaluation datasets, automated rating systems, or conducting error analysis and prompt optimization for generative models.
Skills
Required:Large language models / LLMEvaluation frameworksSystem design and architecture
Nice to have:Cross-functional collaboration
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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