Research Engineer, Project Astra, GenAi, Google DeepMind

SnapshotProject Astra has the mission of researching and building a Universal AI Assistant. We regularly show the most breakthrough research prototypes to the world and are looking to expand the team with someone to work on agentic research and development.About UsArtificial 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.Project Astra has been presented to the public during Google I/O 2024. Since then we released our experimental app to a select pool of trusted testers and have been pioneering agentic research at Google DeepMind. We presented at Google I/O 2025 and have more exciting launches to come We constantly prototype frontier agentic capabilities and showcase what the future AI assistant could look like.The RoleWe are looking for a Research Engineer to join the team and work towards building a Universal Assistant.We are looking for someone excited about our mission and interested in working on a broad range of problems: from agentic research to infrastructure projects from data and evaluation workflows to improving reliability of our engineering stack. Specific tasks are dependent on new joiners skills and interests and current team needs.Key responsibilities:The team is working on a full stack Universal Assistant prototype and there are opportunities to contribute to the project across workstreams including:Agent infrastructureMulti-agent systemsModel inference and optimisationsModel fine-tuning and evaluationPrompt optimisationsFull-stack integrationWe collaborate with a number of teams across GDM including Gemini and Gemini App. This role would involve working with a number of partners in a collaborative way.About YouIn order to set you up for success as a Software Engineer at DeepMind we look for the following skills and experience:Knowledge of the current trends frameworks and approaches in agentic AICreative problem-solving skills applicable to agentic AI workflowsDemonstrated ability to conduct research and/or to engineer complex systemsIn addition the following would be an advantage:Experience with building agentic workflowsExperience with data collection model fine-tuning and evaluationTrack record of publication at leading conferences on the topic of agentic AI and multimodal LLMsProficient PythonInference optimization techniquesExtensive prompt tuning experienceApplication deadline: 12pm GMT Friday 30th January 2026Note: In the event your application is successful and an offer of employment is made to you any offer of employment will be conditional on the results of a background check performed by a third party acting on our behalf. For more information on how we handle your data please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy.At 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 maternity 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. Key Skills Robotics,Machine Learning,Python,AI,C/C++,OS Kernels,Research Experience,Matlab,Rust,Research & Development,Natural Language Processing,Tensorflow Employment Type : Contract Experience: years Vacancy: 1