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Our team is helping develop next-gen capabilities for Astra, GDM’s universal agent prototype. These capabilities include integration of Google services (Gmail, Calendar, etc.) as well as completely new agent experiences like homework tutors, city guides, and AskPhotos.
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.
The role
This role on the Astra Exploratory team is targeted toward the development of new state of the art capabilities for Google’s Astra Agent. SWEs in this role will develop on the core codebase and help onboard PA collaborators partnering with us to bring all of Google’s capabilities to Astra as a Universal Assistant.
Key responsibilities
This role will be central in supporting partners from across Google to use Astra as an Agent Platform for their services and experiences. In this role you will:
- Develop within the core Astra code base, contributing to server-side agent functionality, including prompting, tool use, and backend processing.
- Work directly with PA partners to identify opportunities to partner and architecting solutions for integration.
- Designing and implementing evaluation strategies comprising data set needs, component level eval, and agent-level end to end evaluation of new capabilities and experiences.
- Drive high-quality demos for major AI moments at Google (IO, Made By Google, etc.)
About you
Successful candidates will have a track record of fast prototyping work combined with production level engineering. Knowing how to define a problem from requirements based evaluation and executing in quick incremental and demo’able steps is required.
In order to set you up for success as an Astra Exploratory Engineer at Google DeepMind, we look for the following skills and experience:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
- Exposure to Python for ML.
- Exposure to Python at Google and its usage patterns within g3.
- Exposure to C++ at Google and its usage patterns within g3.
- Designing complex software features, including evaluating alternatives, and performing short and long term trade-offs
- Implement high quality code, well tested and easy to maintain
In addition, the following would be an advantage:
- Experience building AI Agent capabilities (Tools, Memory, Planning, etc.)
- Open source experience, e.g. making pull requests on Github.
- Experience with Generative AI Agents and their use cases.
- Development familiarity with industry-available generative AI APIs and libraries.
- Python/C++ readability.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $189,000 - $300,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.
Application deadline: 12pm GMT March 17th, 2025
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What We Do
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.
Our long term aim is to solve intelligence, developing more general and capable problem-solving systems, known as artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Guided by safety and ethics, this invention could help society find answers to some of the world’s most pressing and fundamental scientific challenges.
We have a track record of breakthroughs in fundamental AI research, published in journals like Nature, Science, and more.Our programs have learned to diagnose eye diseases as effectively as the world’s top doctors, to save 30% of the energy used to keep data centres cool, and to predict the complex 3D shapes of proteins - which could one day transform how drugs are invented.
