Software Engineer, Personalization, Gemini App, Google DeepMind
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Job Location:
Zürich - Switzerland
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Snapshot
Make Gemini App the most personal assistant. Build personalization-related user-facing features spanning both the Gemini App stack and the Gemini models behind it. Identify quality gaps and issues and take end-to-end ownership over the improvements. Work closely with research scientists other software engineers and cross-functional partners.
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 the Gemini App Personalization team in order to make Gemini App the most personal assistant. Gemini App is Googles flagship LLM product where youll contribute to building cutting-edge personalization features on top of state-of-the-art Gemini models. Personalization is a top priority for the Gemini App as we aim to:
- Build and launch new Gemini App personalization features and capabilities across all surfaces and powering all other Gemini App features and components.
- Expand or develop new personalization-related capabilities (e.g. understanding relevant personal information and using it appropriately in model responses and tool invocations) spanning both the Gemini App stack and the state-of-the-art Gemini models that are powering it.
Personalization features and capabilities are reaching hundreds of millions of users and are frequently highlighted by leads in high visibility external events (e.g. Google I/O Made by Google).
Key responsibilities:
- Act as primary owner and critical judge for specific Personalization features/areas. You will define the key metrics evaluation standards and acceptance criteria that guide development.
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of complex quality or infrastructure improvements from hypothesis and experimentation to production deployment across both fine-tunable and frozen model architectures.
- Propose and take end-to-end ownership over targeted quality or infrastructure improvements.
- Partner closely with research scientists engineers and cross-functional partners (product and program managers) to advance the business goals of the organization.
- Influence and align with senior stakeholders and cross-functional leaders (Product Research Program Management) to shape the multi-quarter Personalization strategy and maximize organizational impact.
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:
- Proficiency in Python / Google Colab / C
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Experience working with Machine Learning models (preferably Large Language Models) in a production environment
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to design and execute complex experiments
- Experience building and shipping features for large-scale user-facing products.
In addition the following would be an advantage:
- Experience with large language models Modeling and Evaluation (System instructions optimization Context engineering Eval design Supervised Fine-Tuning )
- Experience with large language models Modeling for improving Personalization capabilities
- Experience in a role requiring close collaboration with research or applied science teams
- A proven ability to navigate ambiguity and translate high-level product vision into a concrete technical roadmap and shipped features.
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.
Application deadline: 12pm CET 31st March 2026
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Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- Data Structures
- JavaScript
- 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.
