Senior Research Software Engineer, ML Efficiency, Google Research

Google Inc.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Singapore seeks a Senior Research Software Engineer specializing in ML Efficiency. This role involves conducting research to enhance the computational efficiency of AI models, writing development code, and collaborating with peers. Applicants should have extensive experience in software development and ideally hold a Bachelor’s or Ph.D. in a relevant field. Join a team that implements real-world solutions while engaging with the research community to publish groundbreaking findings.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3+ years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
• 3+ years of experience developing ML infrastructure.
• Expertise in reinforcement learning or other ML fields.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Collaborate with peers in code reviews for best practices.
• Contribute to documentation based on updates and feedback.
• Debug and resolve product issues impacting performance.
• Implement solutions in specialized ML areas.

Skills

Software development

Machine Learning

Testing and maintaining software

Problem-solving

Mentoring junior team members

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Ph.D. in related fields

Job description

Senior Research Software Engineer, ML Efficiency, Google Research

Mid

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

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Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google's sponsorship of a visa.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience with one or more of the following: Speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
• 3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging).

Preferred qualifications

• Ph.D. in machine learning, AI, computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, data science, or related technical fields.
• Publication record in top AI venues.
• Experience in a university or industry labs, with primary emphasis on AI research.
• Experience in theoretical and empirical research and solving impactful research problems.
• Understanding of Transformer architecture internals.

About the job

At Google, research-focused Software Engineers are embedded throughout the company, allowing them to setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly. Ideas may come from internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, engineers work on real-world problems including artificial intelligence, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. But you stay connected to your research roots as an active contributor to the wider research community by partnering with universities and publishing papers.

In this role, you will be making significant breakthroughs towards Computational Efficiency of Generative AI Models (LLMs, Diffusion Models, Generative Videos). You will research algorithmic efficiency, model compression, and inference acceleration, directly impacting how next-generation AI models will be deployed to billions of people.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Implement solutions in one or more specialized ML areas, utilize ML infrastructure, and contribute to model optimization and data processing.

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