Senior Engineering Lead, Organizational Engineering Agent Platform, DeepMind

Job description

As the Lead for the Agent Platform team, you will be part of Google DeepMind (GDM’s) transformation into an AI-first organization. You will balance technical contributions with strategic management. You will lead a growing nimble, high-density team of currently 4 Exceutive Software Engineers, while remaining personally embedded in the codebase—spending 30–50% of your time designing and committing code.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the Agent Platform, to ensure high-quality delivery. Lead on critical systems, ensuring the platform is high-quality, scalable, and reduces toil across functional lines.
• Develop and communicate a technical strategy that addresses orchestration, tool-use infra, and sandboxing.
• Invest in growth of the SWE team, providing coaching and feedback while fostering a culture of technical excellence and "AI-first" innovation.
• Act as the primary technical point-of-contact for teams building on the platform and navigate upstream dependencies across Google and GDM to remove barriers to productivity.
• Lead the team through GDM’s pivot toward an innovation center, ensuring work aligns with the broader mission of scaling intelligent workflows across the organization.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development, including distributed systems architecture and distributed systems design.
• 2 years of experience managing or leading technical teams.
• Experience in software development using general-purpose programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or C++).
• Experience with LLMs including agent development, evaluation frameworks, advanced prompt engineering.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or building safe, predictable, reliable systems.
• Experience in a startup environment with an ability to move with urgency, adapt to changing requirements, and do "whatever is needed" to achieve the mission.
• Experience managing critical dependencies and partnerships with Google infra teams (TPU/Compute infrastructure).
• Track record of building and maintaining infrastructure systems.
• Ability to take ambiguous organizational problems and turn them into simple, elegant technical solutions.