Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML, ML Training

Google LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, anddisb.

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off: 20 days/year

Sick Time: 40 hours/year (69 hours in

Maternity Leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

Holidays: 13 paid days/year

Job summary

Google LLC in Sunnyvale, CA is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for AI/ML, ML Training. You will work on large-scale models, deploying and optimizing ML systems across TPU/GPUs, collaborating with DeepMind and Core ML teams.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ML development, model evaluation, and performance tuning of generative AI workloads. Candidates should have deep software engineering experience and a strong foundation in machine learning, data processing, and systems design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development.
• 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience with end-to-end Machine Learning (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging).
• 3 years of generative AI or performance analysis experience.

Responsibilities

• Write and test 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.
• Design and implement solutions in one or more specialized ML areas, leverage ML infrastructure, and demonstrate expertise in a chosen field.

Skills

Software development

End-to-end ML development

Generative AI / performance analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

TPUs

GPUs

Pip wheels / Docker images

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML, ML Training

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X 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 (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• 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: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

• 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 end-to-end Machine Learning (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging).
• 3 years of generative AI or performance analysis experience.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  
• 5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• 2 years of experience with ML accelerators (TPUs, GPUs) and their performance tuning.
• 2 years of experience with Mixture of Experts (MoE) or diffusion models performance optimization.
• Experience in building and releasing software artifacts (pip wheels, docker images, etc.).

About the job

Google’s software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We’re looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

The JAX Models and Performance team empowers GCP customers’ Gen AI workloads by supporting and optimizing performance for key model architectures. We own and develop open-source high-performance JAX implementations for LLMs and Diffusion models, collaborating with DeepMind and Core ML teams to optimize these workloads on GCP AI Hypercomputer (TPUs, GPUs, and CPUs). We are part of the ML Training team in the Core ML organization.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

About the job

Google’s software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We’re looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

The JAX Models and Performance team empowers GCP customers’ Gen AI workloads by supporting and optimizing performance for key model architectures. We own and develop open-source high-performance JAX implementations for LLMs and Diffusion models, collaborating with DeepMind and Core ML teams to optimize these workloads on GCP AI Hypercomputer (TPUs, GPUs, and CPUs). We are part of the ML Training team in the Core ML organization.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Write and test 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.
  
• Design and implement solutions in one or more specialized ML areas, leverage ML infrastructure, and demonstrate expertise in a chosen field.
  

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