Senior Platform Application Engineer, Cloud AI Infrastructure

Google LLC; Kirkland, Sunnyvale (WA, CA); On-site; USD 164,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and long

401(k) with company match

PTO: 20 days/year

Sick time: 40 hours/year

Maternity leave: 28–30 weeks

Baby bonding leave: 18 weeks

Holidays: 13 paid days/year

Job summary

Google LLC in the United States is seeking a Senior Platform Application Engineer to advance AI infrastructure hardware solutions. You will drive deep hardware analysis, debugging, and resolutions across complex platforms, collaborating with engineering and product teams to improve Google Cloud AI hardware offerings.

This role involves solving customer observations, building permanent platform improvements, and contributing to scalable AI workloads across CPU, GPU, and TPU architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, MIS, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience with technical infrastructure deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• 6 years of CPU, dGPU, or TPU debugging experience.
• 5 years hardware debugging (silicon, platform, IO, or memory).
• Experience debugging across hardware/software stack and enterprise-grade server infra.

Responsibilities

• Manage customers' problems through diagnosis, resolution, or new investigation tools to increase productivity on AI/ML infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Product, Quality, and Engineering teams; interact with SRE teams for behavior understanding.
• Debug platform hardware and silicon-related issues to drive root-cause resolution and permanent improvements.
• Understand AI/ML workloads and underlying hardware architectures; build faster diagnosis tools.
• Act as a consultant to internal stakeholders to resolve deployment obstacles in AI infrastructure environments.

Skills

CPU/GPU/TPU debugging

Linux/Unix debugging

Distributed systems

AI/ML hardware

Kubernetes/Slurm

Performance debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS, MIS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Slurm

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Share Senior Platform Application Engineer, Cloud AI Infrastructure

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kirkland, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or other technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 6 years of experience with technical infrastructure (deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting), and quality and reliability of technical infrastructure.
• 6 years of debug or validation experience with CPU, dGPU, or TPU
• 5 years of experience with hardware debug (silicon debug, platform debug, IO interface, or memory analysis).
• Experience debugging technical issues across the stack (hardware faults, low-level software, networking, virtualization, kernel drivers, firmware, or performance)
• Experience with Linux/Unix systems and debugging issues across the hardware/software boundary on enterprise-grade server infrastructure.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with large-scale distributed systems, and familiarity with common solutions, design patterns, or best practices.
• Experience working directly with AI/ML computing hardware, including GPUs or other accelerators.
• Experience with systems automation, and with systems design and debug.
• Experience with ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, Pytorch), and understanding of the AI/ML training and inference lifecycle.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies like Kubernetes or Slurm in an on-prem or cloud environment.
• Understanding of memory and high-speed IO technologies.

About the job

Our AI Infrastructure Engineering Support team is dedicated to ensuring our customers get the most out of their Google Cloud hardware investment. As a Platform Application Engineer (Hardware Engineer), you will be focused on solving customer observations by, driving deep hardware analysis, debug, and issue resolution through to the root cause. You will dive deep into complex technical challenges, troubleshoot critical issues across the platform, and provide resolutions in both short-term and long-term platform solutions. In this role, you will represent the customer solution, collaborating tightly with engineering and product teams to drive continuous improvement in our products and services.Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

About the job

Our AI Infrastructure Engineering Support team is dedicated to ensuring our customers get the most out of their Google Cloud hardware investment. As a Platform Application Engineer (Hardware Engineer), you will be focused on solving customer observations by, driving deep hardware analysis, debug, and issue resolution through to the root cause. You will dive deep into complex technical challenges, troubleshoot critical issues across the platform, and provide resolutions in both short-term and long-term platform solutions. In this role, you will represent the customer solution, collaborating tightly with engineering and product teams to drive continuous improvement in our products and services.Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• Manage customer’s problems through effective diagnosis, resolution, or implementation of new investigation tools to increase productivity on AI/ML infrastructure.
• Work closely with multiple Product, Quality, and Engineering teams to improve the product, and interact with our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to understand behaviors.
• Debug platform hardware and silicon-related issues to drive root-cause resolution and develop permanent improvements.
• Drive understanding of AI/ML workloads and underlying hardware architectures by troubleshooting, reproducing, determining the cause for customer reported issues, and building tools for faster diagnosis.
• Act as a consultant and subject matter expert for internal stakeholders in Engineering and Quality organizations to resolve complex deployment and operational obstacles in AI infrastructure environments.

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