Code Research Engineer, Horizons - Mountain View

Snapshot

• Research Engineer focused on improving Gemini’s coding and SWE-agent capabilities 

About Us

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind, we’re a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, and collaborate with others on critical challenges, ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.

Horizons is responsible for Gemini’s Code, Thinking, and Reasoning performance.

The Role

Key responsibilities: 

• Design experiments to improve Gemini’s capabilities as a software engineer. 
• Create evaluations to measure key software engineering capabilities.
• Responsibilities may include creating evaluations to measure Gemini’s capabilities as a software engineer, running RL experiments to improve them, and designing novel agent harnesses & agentic capabilities. 
• Build infrastructure components necessary to facilitate research.
• Work with a cross-functional research & infrastructure team.

About You

This section can be viewed as your Minimum & Preferred Qualifications sections. Please be as specific as possible, as this will help ensure you generate a relevant candidate pipeline both internally and external from your posting. 

In order to set you up for success as a Research Engineer at Google DeepMind,  we look for the following skills and experience: 

Requirements: 

• Understanding of LLMs & recent RL methodology 
• Experience running ML experiments 
• Experience developing LLM-based agents

In addition, the following would be an advantage:

• • Systematic thinker and engineer who find joy in traversing the full stack.
  • Positive, gritty technologist who can overcome ambiguity and pressure to deliver what is sought by users in a short time frame.
  • Rigorous and meticulous analyst who will want nothing but the best datasets / experiments they can curate.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between 141,000 USD - 202,000 USD + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.

Application deadline: January 31, 2026

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