Staff Applied AI Agent Engineer

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years

of experience with software design and architecture.

• 5 years of experience in cloud computing or a technical customer-facing role.

• Experience developing and deploying agentic solutions utilizing tools,

multi-agent workflows, and RAG systems.

• Experience managing customer projects and resources.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related

technical field.

• 5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.

• Experience in prompt development, model evaluation, and the creative

application of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

• Experience designing end-to-end secure, observable multi-agent systems using

complex design patterns (e.g., ReAct, self-reflection), state management, and

tool-calling protocols.

• Experience designing intuitive interfaces for complex AI and agentic systems,

prioritizing context engineering, transparency, and explainability to foster

user trust.

• Experience architecting AI solutions within complex infrastructures, ensuring

data sovereignty and secure governance.

ABOUT THE JOB:

Google's software engineers 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. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from

all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale

system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence,

natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is

growing every day. As a software engineer, 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. We need our engineers to be

versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new

problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

As an Agent Engineer, you will be at the forefront of applying Google's

cutting-edge Generative AI to solve real-world issues for our customers. You

will act as a specialized software engineer embedded with key accounts, working

to build, deploy, and optimize sophisticated AI agents on our Gemini for

Customer Experience platform. This is a high-impact role that bridges the gap

between our core product engineering 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. Join us to work on cutting-edge projects and shape the

future of AI in a fast-paced, collaborative, and impactful environment.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills,

experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Partner directly with select, strategic customers to understand their

business issues. 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, 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.