Software Engineer III, Kaggle, AI/Machine Learning
Description For Software Engineer III, Kaggle, AI/Machine Learning
Join Google's Kaggle Research team as a Software Engineer III, where you'll be at the forefront of AI/ML innovation. This role combines software engineering excellence with cutting-edge machine learning research, focusing on developing and maintaining Kaggle's competition platform and AI benchmarking systems. You'll work directly with Google DeepMind researchers and external collaborators to create valuable AI evaluations and benchmarks.
The position requires strong expertise in machine learning, particularly with Large Language Models and NLP, combined with solid software development skills. You'll be responsible for designing and implementing systems that support AI/ML benchmarking and evaluation at scale, while also contributing to research papers and presenting at conferences.
As part of Google's larger AI initiative, you'll help shape how the world validates and builds AI responsibly. The role offers unique opportunities to work on problems that impact various industries through Google Cloud's AI Research team, from healthcare to finance and retail. You'll be instrumental in expanding Kaggle's platform capabilities, particularly in hosting LLM benchmarks and community evaluations.
The ideal candidate brings 2+ years of experience in software development and machine learning, with a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. You'll be working with a collaborative team that values innovation and technical excellence, with the opportunity to publish research and present at prestigious conferences. This position offers the chance to directly influence the future of AI validation while working with some of the brightest minds in the field at Google.
Responsibilities For Software Engineer III, Kaggle, AI/Machine Learning
- Collaborate with the Kaggle Research team to design and implement software systems and tools that support the cutting edge of benchmarking and evaluation AI/ML
- Collaborate with Google DeepMind Researchers and external researchers to create and host valuable AI evaluations and benchmarks on Kaggle
- Develop and maintain software infrastructure for running Kaggle competitions and benchmarks
- Work with the Kaggle Competitions team to expand Kaggle's competitions platform to host and run Large Language Model (LLM) Benchmarks and community evaluations
- Contribute to the development and deployment of new research methods and algorithms for AI and ML
- Publish research papers and present findings at conferences and workshops
- Collaborate with engineering, design, and product leadership to improve Kaggle's product for research priorities
Requirements For Software Engineer III, Kaggle, AI/Machine Learning
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures or algorithms
- 2 years of experience with machine learning algorithms and tools (e.g. TensorFlow), artificial intelligence, deep learning or natural language processing
- Experience with Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing (NLP), or Generative AI
