Staff Applied AI Agent Developer

Google utilizes AI tools to assist in assessing candidates in our hiring processes.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Preferred working locations: Waterloo, ON, Canada; Toronto, ON, Canada; New York, NY, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience testing and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 5 years of experience with one or more of the following: speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
• Experience with core GenAI concepts (e.g., Large Language Model (LLM), multi-modal, large vision models) and experience with text, image, video, or audio generation.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience in Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Dialogflow.
• Experience in prompt development, model evaluation, and the creative application of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• Ability to be flexible and resilient in dynamic environments where priorities often shift and to take ownership and respond to urgent business or customer issues.

About the role

Google's software developers 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. As a software developer, 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.

As a Staff Applied AI Agent Developer, you will be at the forefront of applying Google's Generative AI to solve real-world challenges for our most strategic customers. You will act as a specialized software developer embedded with key accounts, working directly to build, deploy, and optimize sophisticated AI agents on our platform. This is a high-impact role that bridges the gap between our core product development teams and complex customer needs, directly accelerating customer success and shaping the future of our AI products.

The Cloud Applied AI (AAI) powers business growth with Gemini Enterprise. Our portfolio includes Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience (Shopping Agent, CX Agent Studio, Agent Assist, Vertex AI Search - Commerce, Customer Experience Insights), along with other vertical and domain packaged solutions. We enable high adoption and speed to value by building solutions that are quickly deployed, delivering new 0-to-1 capabilities with startup agility. Team members operate at the forefront of AI, collaborating directly with model builders with unprecedented speed.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with select, strategic customers to understand their business challenges.
• Design, co-develop, debug, and deploy custom conversational AI agents and solutions to accelerate their time to value.
• Act as a high-level problem solver, empowered to write bespoke code, develop custom tooling, and even contribute directly to the core product codebase to resolve critical customer issues.
• Systematize your learnings from customer engagements by creating reusable tools, building documentation and accelerators, and establishing best practices that can be used across the organization.
• Serve as a critical feedback loop to our core Product and Development teams. Synthesize insights from the field to influence product strategy and identify feature gaps.
• Act as a subject matter expert, providing technical guidance and best practices to customers on agent improvement, performance tuning, CI/CD pipelines, and production readiness.

Pay

• US: $207,000 - $300,000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
• Canada: $216,000 - $221,000 (CAD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits