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Senior Software Engineer, Data and Infrastructure, Professional Intelligence, DeepMind

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Compensation
$174–252K/yr
Location
Mountain View, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Software Engineer will build data and infrastructure systems for Professional Intelligence at DeepMind, working with AI agents developed by machine-learning and neuroscience researchers. The role includes developing agent capabilities, implementing fine-grained access controls, and operating production systems. The team focuses on advancing AI development and measuring the intelligence of its prototypes.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

PythonModern Python ToolchainsData PipelinesBatch and Streaming DesignData Storage SolutionsCoding AgentsInfrastructure as CodeServerless PlatformsContainer PlatformsData Access ControlData SecurityDocument ProcessingLearning New TechnologiesTeaching TeammatesMachine Learning InferenceLLM Agent DevelopmentProduction EngineeringTestingCI/CDMonitoringOn-Call Operations

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science or EquivalentEnglish Proficiency

Full job description

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.

  • Experince in Python with modern toolchains and frameworks (e.g., uv, ruff, FastAPI, Pydantic).

  • Experience building and operating data pipelines (e.g., one or more of Apache Beam, Dataflow, Flink, and Spark), and with trade-offs between batch and streaming designs.

  • Experience with data storage solutions (e.g., SQL/Postgres, NoSQL, blob storage, search indexes, vector databases) and the trade-offs between them.

  • Experience using coding agents to develop code and tests to specification.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) and serverless or container platforms (e.g., Cloud Run, GKE).

  • Experience implementing access control and security in data systems (e.g., row-level security, IAM, VPC Service Controls), or working with sensitive or regulated data.

  • Experience with document processing at scale (e.g., OCR, PDF/Office rendering, e-discovery or load-file formats).

  • Experience in start-up-like environments where priorities can change quickly, and joy in learning new technologies and teaching teammates.

  • Exposure to production systems that rely heavily on ML models, including batch inference with large language models.

About the job

At DeepMind our mission is to build the world's first general-purpose learning agent. Central to this mission is the complex task of measuring the intelligence of our prototypes. As a Software Engineer, you will be working with the AI agents developed by our exceptional team of Machine Learning and Neuroscience research scientists. Your responsibilities will include everything from creating systems for agent testing using 2D and 3D games to developing test problems within physics simulators. You will create graphical visualization of results, build competitive agent leaderboards and test new algorithms on robots. To succeed in this role you will need to have a strong foundation in software engineering and enjoy working on a wide range of challenging problems within a mission-driven team.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At 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.

We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Act like an owner ask questions, propose solutions, build consensus, and drive execution from concept to delivery.

  • Build agent capabilities design and implement skills, plugins and typed tools for LLM agents that search, read, reason over and cite large private corporate.

  • Engineer for production an intense focus on code and product quality, testing, CI/CD, monitoring and on-call. Keep live systems healthy while the next generation is built.

  • Implement fine-grained, per-document access controls across search indexes, databases and storage, and make sure every access is logged.

  • Multiply your impact with AI: use the latest AI coding agents to move fast, and help the team do the same.

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How this job compares

Set against the 41,225 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$174–252K/yr
  • California median$165–245K/yr7,655 salary ranges
  • US median$134–215K/yr32,917 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $213K, is 4% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the middle half of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 9,529 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 41,225 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (33,478 postings).
Education
14,294 of the 41,225 open Software Engineer jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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