Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Jules

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
• 2 years of experience with experience with machine learning algorithms and tools (e.g., TensorFlow), artificial intelligence, deep learning, or natural language processing.
• 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience developing, launching products, or technologies with Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Experience developing accessible technologies.

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.

Jules is Google's AI coding agent, a proactive, parallel collaborator that helps you build, not just think. Our goal is to transform developers from solo contributors into orchestrators of intelligent systems.

Labs is a group focused on incubating early-stage efforts in support of Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team exists to help discover and create new ways to advance our core products through exploration and the application of new technologies. We work to build new solutions that have the potential to transform how users interact with Google. Our goal is to drive innovation by developing new Google products and capabilities that deliver significant impact over longer timeframes.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

• Design and improve core agent cognitive architecture for Jules, including planning, execution, instruction following, feedback, memory, state management and tool-use capabilities.
• Improve agent state structure and update, using context engineering, and agent self-correction loops, using code verification and feedback to ensure high quality and correctness.
• Lead efforts to benchmark performance on Gemini and Jules benchmarks, towards metrics and capabilities.
• Own quality and reliability experience aspects related to agent performance, compliance and consistency.
• Collaborate closely with product, infrastructure, and research teams to ship new agent capabilities and deliver a reliable product experience.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .