Staff AI Research Engineer, Large User Models

Google is a leading technology company that develops next-generation technologies to change how billions of users connect and interact with information. The Staff AI Research Engineer will architect the strategy for foundation recommender model pre-training, drive a high-velocity research agenda, and collaborate with various teams to ensure technical support for research and model quality.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the long-term strategy for foundation recommender model pre-training, encompassing both model architecture evolution and future training methodologies
• Drive a high-velocity research agenda focused on model quality, prioritizing experiments based on compute capacity and researcher bandwidth
• Partner with ML infrastructure teams to architect training frameworks and ensure the technical ecosystem supports the research and release roadmap
• Collaborate with data teams to plan data collection for pre-training, setting the standards for data quality to meet foundational model objectives
• Establish evaluation benchmarks and maintain engaged leaderboards to track progress against baselines and ensure performance