Software Engineer III, GenAI, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in C++ or Python.
• 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• Experience in GenAI, Large Language Model (LLM), Agentic AI Systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience with core Generative AI (GenAI) concepts (e.g., Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models).
• Experience of developing Agentic AI systems using Vertex AI, Google ADK etc.
• Experience with text, image, video, or audio generation.

About the jobGoogle'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.

In this role, you will bridge the gap between global knowledge and specialized private data to build the next generation of intelligent solutions. You will integrate the power of Google Search directly into LLMs to provide seamless access to verified, real-time information, leverage Vertex Artificial Intelligence (AI) Search to ground models in unique datasets for highly tailored results, and collaborate on delivering transformative "wow" moments that redefine business operations and the user experience.The Google Cloud AI Research team addresses AI challenges motivated by Google Cloud’s mission of bringing AI to tech, healthcare, finance, retail and many other industries. We work on a range of unique problems focused on research topics that maximize scientific and real-world impact, aiming to push the state-of-the-art in AI and share findings with the broader research community. We also collaborate with product teams to bring innovations to real-world impact that benefits our customers.

Responsibilities

• Build the next generation of Grounding on Web Search and unblock critical customer needs to onboard on Vertex platforms.
• Design, implement, and maintain critical systems that run our stack and in advancing its capabilities to scale to our customers needs.
• Build algorithms to improve grounding with respect to Large Language Models (LLMs), and for dynamically using grounding in LLMs.
• Build Search ranking improvement algorithms.
• Build and train specialized models to improve the quality of the grounding stack.

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