Senior Software Engineer - Research Platform, Consumer Devices

About the Team

The Future of Computing Research team is an Applied Research team within the Consumer Devices group focused on developing new methods and models as we advance forward in our mission of building AGI that benefits all of humanity.

As a Software Engineer on the Future of Computing Research team, you will work together with both the best ML researchers in the world and the greatest design talent of our generation to push the frontier of model capabilities.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Have strong full-stack experience across web applications, backend services, APIs, and data models, including ownership of complex systems spanning multiple services or repositories.
• Have expertise in generative AI, multimodal models, or model-evaluation systems.
• Have built effective internal tools for both technical and non-technical users.
• Are comfortable debugging distributed workflows and production infrastructure.
• Have strong product judgment and can translate ambiguous requirements into concrete plans.
• Are energized by working between designers and researchers in a multidisciplinary team, connecting qualitative judgment to rigorous evidence.
• Communicate clearly and work effectively across engineering, design, and research.

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