Senior Software Engineer, Operations Research and Gemini — Google Switzerland
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- Yesterday
Role overview
Minimum qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience with software development in Python.
- Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Build evaluation datasets, autoraters, and reward functions to assess and improve Gemini capabilities.
- Develop user simulators to test and refine model interactions.
- 5 years of experience with software development in Python.
Main responsibilities
- Build evaluation datasets, autoraters, and reward functions to assess and improve Gemini capabilities.
- Develop user simulators to test and refine model interactions.
- Construct agentic harnesses that enable models to interface with optimization solvers.
- Partner with product areas to integrate optimization solvers into their Generative AI offerings.
- Identify model capability gaps and devise concrete technical solutions.
Key requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in Python.
- 3 years of experience building training and evaluation datasets for Generative AI models.
- 3 years of experience operating within the core technology stack of modern Large Language Models (LLMs).
- 3 years of experience in machine learning research or machine learning infrastructure.
Application process
- Our teams aspire to make discoveries that impact everyone, and core to our approach is sharing our research and tools to fuel progress in the field -- we publish regularly in academic journals, release projects as open source, and apply research to Google products.
Company and context
- 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
- Experience in combinatorial optimization or other areas of operations research.
- Experience in reinforcement learning. 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.
- The Operations Research group builds technology to solve optimization problems for the world, Alphabet, and Google.
- You will join a team that works at the intersection of Operations Research and Gemini, primarily focused on using optimization techniques to improve Gemini.
Additional details
- Experience in reinforcement learning.
Notes and original content
- About the job
- Responsibilities
Questions about this listing
What salary does Google Switzerland offer for this role?
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