Senior AI Research Software Engineer — Inference & ML Systems

Google; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Research Singapore seeks a Staff Research Software Engineer to advance the frontier of AI capabilities and enable ultra‑efficient generative models. You will help build a team from the ground up, pioneering AI research in Singapore and collaborating with Google teams on high‑performing AI systems.

You will design algorithms to optimize inference for LLMs, work on low-level software for model execution, and co‑design with hardware architects to leverage accelerators.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 5 years of experience with one or more of: Speech/audio, reinforcement learning, ML infrastructure, or related ML field.
• 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (model deployment, evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement novel algorithms that optimize the inference stack for LLMs to ensure the highest throughput and lowest latency for billions of users.
• Develop and optimize the low-level software that runs AI models efficiently; implement and optimize custom kernels for inference.
• Co-design algorithms that exploit hardware accelerators; collaborate with hardware architects on next‑generation systems.
• Amplify impact and influence the research ecosystem through publications and dissemination.

Skills

Speech/Audio ML

Reinforcement learning

ML infrastructure

Transformer internals

GenAI / LLM integration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

PhD in ML/AI/CS/Stats/Data Science or related field

Job description

Google Research Singapore seeks a Staff Research Software Engineer to advance the frontier of AI capabilities and enable ultra‑efficient generative models. You will help build a team from the ground up, pioneering AI research in Singapore and collaborating with Google teams on high‑performing AI systems.

You will design algorithms to optimize inference for LLMs, work on low-level software for model execution, and co‑design with hardware architects to leverage accelerators.