Senior Engineering Lead, Organizational Engineering Agent Platform, DeepMind

DeepMind London, UK

• 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.

• 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.

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 Executive Software Engineers, while remaining personally embedded in the codebase-spending 30-50% of your time designing and committing code.

You will navigate Google/GDM infrastructure, and build bridge-technologies that turn research into production-grade agentic systems.

• 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.

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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