Google · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer, ML Performance
Mountain View, CA, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$197K/yr - $291K/yr
8+ years expGoogle is a leading technology company that develops next-generation technologies impacting billions of users. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to develop Machine Learning performance analysis and optimization technology, focusing on enhancing TPU platform performance and collaborating with product teams to address AI challenges.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO
Responsibilities
Engage with Google product teams, Cloud and researchers to solve their performance problems, such as onboarding ML models and products, and enabling giant models to train and serve efficiently
Apply optimization techniques, such as quantization and sparsity, to improve model performance while meeting pre-defined quality characteristics
Collaborate with partner teams on complementary performance optimizations: compiler, custom kernels, sharding
Design, write, and test product or system development code
Triage product or system issues, including end-to-end performance
Qualification
Required
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 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
5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning)
Preferred
Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms
3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction
3 years of experience working in an organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects
Experience in Machine Learning models (ML theory) and systems (JAX/PyTorch/TensorFlow/similar)
Experience with custom TPU/GPU kernels
Benefits
Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Company
Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$26.1MKey Investors
Andy Bechtolsheim
2004-08-19IPO
1999-06-07Series Unknown· $25M
1998-11-01Angel· $1M
Leadership Team
Sundar Pichai
CEO
Thomas Kurian
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