Machine Learning Quality Engineer, DeepMind, Project Janus
Company: Google
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: April 4, 2026
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Job Description:
Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
practical experience. 5 years of experience with software
development in one or more programming languages. 3 years of
experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products,
and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
Experience building or using AI Agents and LLM-based frameworks to
automate software engineering tasks. Preferred qualifications:
Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical
field. 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms. 1
year of experience in a technical leadership role. Experience
developing accessible technologies. 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. Project Janus is a new product development in
the Gemini App team, which leverages the world-leading Gemini model
to deliver intelligent automation across web browsers, computers,
and beyond! Artificial intelligence will be one humanity’s most
transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering
AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on
advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and
accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users.
We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and
scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our
highest priority. We are pushing the boundaries across multiple
domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and
varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional
results through collective effort. The US base salary range for
this full-time position is $174,000-$252,000 bonus equity benefits.
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.
Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and
additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and
relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about
the specific salary range for your preferred location during the
hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in
US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include
bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities Develop from scratch the next generation of AI
technologies that empower Google users. Work on Janus modeling and
quality, including setting up evaluation sets and infrastructure,
agentic orchestration flows, prompt iteration, context engineering,
autoraters, and training data collection. Work with the One Recipe
team on iterating on new versions of the Gemini model through SFT
and RL techniques. Read and research industrial ideas in this area
and apply them to our real use cases. Participate in code reviews,
enforce development best practices, and share your knowledge to
raise the team's overall technical expertise. Work in a small team
environment to rapidly develop a new product.
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