Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Information Retrieval
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Job Location:
Zürich - Switzerland
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Snapshot
We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to design build and refine autonomous systems that revolutionize how we access and process information. This role focuses on creating intelligent agents capable of understanding complex user queries performing sophisticated information retrieval tasks and ranking results for relevance and accuracy. You will be at the forefront of applying advanced AI to solve challenging search and data synthesis problems directly contributing to the next generation of intelligent systems.
About Us
Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanitys most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind were 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
Join our team of engineers to shape the future of intelligent systems and information access. We are looking for motivated software engineers with a passion for building agentic applications that can reason retrieve and synthesize this role you will work on creating sophisticated agents that can navigate vast datasets interact with various tools and APIs and deliver precise trustworthy answers to users. Youll join an inspiring and collaborative environment working on ground-breaking technology with potentially extraordinary impact.
Key responsibilities:
- Design build and maintain agentic applications focused on complex information retrieval and question-answering tasks.
- Develop and implement novel ranking algorithms to evaluate filter and prioritize information retrieved by AI agents.
- Integrate and fine-tune large language models (LLMs) to serve as the core reasoning engine for autonomous agents.
- Build robust data and evaluation pipelines to measure agent performance track key metrics (e.g. accuracy latency relevance) and drive continuous improvement.
- Collaborate closely with research scientists and other engineering teams to translate cutting-edge ideas into production-ready systems.
- Engineer solutions for agent reliability scalability and efficiency to support a growing number of users and use cases.
About You
In order to set you up for success as a Software Engineer at Google DeepMind we look for the following skills and experience:
- Proven experience in back-end software engineering using languages like Python or C.
- Strong understanding of and experience with information retrieval search and/or question-answering systems.
- Experience designing and working with complex data pipelines and data analysis.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills for collaborating effectively with both technical and research-oriented colleagues.
- A bachelors degree in Computer Science a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
In addition the following would be an advantage:
- Experience building applications using large language models (LLMs).
- Familiarity with building agentic systems or frameworks (e.g. involving planning tool use or reasoning).
- Basic understanding of statistics data science or machine learning evaluation techniques.
- Experience with modern vector search and indexing technologies.
At Google DeepMind we value diversity of experience knowledge backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex race religion or belief ethnic or national origin disability age citizenship marital domestic or civil partnership status sexual orientation gender identity pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation please do not hesitate to let us know.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Artificial intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. We research and build safe artificial intelligence systems. We're committed to solving intelligence, to advance science and benefit humanity.
