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Google · 4 days ago

Storage Infrastructure Engineer, Machine Learning

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Full-time

Onsite

Entry, Mid Level

$141K/yr - $202K/yr

2+ years exp

Google is seeking a Storage Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Machine Learning to work on the Hydra storage system, which supports major tools and workflows within Gemini. The role involves improving performance and reliability, collaborating with various teams, and implementing new features to meet evolving AI research needs.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Improve Hydra’s read/query/write patterns throughout its storage layer and serving stack. This includes analyzing Spanner hotspotting/lock contention/resource usage/issues, improving Hydra’s Spanner/Lightning schema design, improving Hydra’s Spanner/F1 queries, supporting new features in F1 Query (e.g., full-text search predicate pushdown) for Hydra’s use cases, etc

Implement data isolation models to allow Hydra to be used by all Google Product Areas for their post training needs

Collaborate with various DeepMind/CoreML/CloudML/Search teams and AI researchers to gather requirements for feature development and performance optimization

Implement new features to meet rapidly evolving Google AI research needs. For instance, Hydra is currently working on better supporting ML model eval, LLM distillation, semantic search, etc

Improve extensibility of the system by leveraging technologies such as Spanner remote Universal Dashboard Framework (UDF)

Qualification

C++PythonSoftware architectureCustomer engagementProject execution

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

2 years of experience with coding in C++, Python and g3Python

Preferred

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field

2 years of experience in software architecture

2 years of experience in customer engagement

2 years of experience in project execution

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

Google

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Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.

Founded in 1998

Mountain View, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.google.com

H1B Sponsorship

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2020 (9785)

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$26.1M

Key Investors

Andy Bechtolsheim

2004-08-19IPO

1999-06-07Series Unknown· $25M

1998-11-01Angel· $1M

Leadership Team

Sundar Pichai

CEO

Thomas Kurian

CEO - Google Cloud

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