Staff Software Engineer, Labs Science
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in full-stack software development using languages such as C++, Java, Kotlin, and Typescript.
- 3 years of experience with front-end frameworks, full-stack development, or API development.
- 1 year of experience with software design, architecture, and machine learning.
- 1 year of experience with agentic coding.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Experience programming in TypeScript or JavaScript.
- Experience working in a research-adjacent environment, translating SOTA models into product features.
- Familiarity with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and billing/infrastructure for compute-intensive workloads.
About The Job
Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.
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Google Labs incubates early-stage efforts to discover and create Google’s next generation of AI products. Our small, product-driven teams focus on rapid innovation to support Google’s core mission. The Language Applications team manages a portfolio, including high-profile launches such as AI Studio, NotebookLM and the Gemini API for developers.
Labs Science is a new initiative within Language Applications. In partnership with Google DeepMind (GDM), we transform breakthrough research—such as Co-Scientist and AlphaEvolve—into user-centric products designed to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Google DeepMind to translate breakthrough GenAI research assets like Co-Scientist and AlphaEvolve into intuitive products that accelerate scientific discovery.
- Architect and build entirely new products from the ground up, moving rapidly from prototypes to production-ready services in a changing environment.
- Design and implement sophisticated agentic systems and multi-step AI prompts to solve complex, open-ended scientific tasks using the latest LLM reasoning advancements.
- Establish frameworks and metrics to measure model performance, driving continuous quality improvements and model fine-tuning for specific scientific use cases.
- Work closely with Product Managers and UX partners to discover user needs and iterate on features that genuinely delight the scientific community.
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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
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