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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.\nThe GenAI Eval Platform team’s mission is to provide a rigorous, high-velocity, and scalable evaluation backbone that powers the development and deployment of Google’s frontier AI models.\nWorking in close collaboration with Google DeepMind (GDM) research teams, you will build the evaluation platform that serves as the steering wheel for AI progress-determining model capability, safety, reasoning depth, and readiness for global launch.\nArtificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google 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. 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