Google

Senior Performance Co-Design Engineer, TPU

Google$174K — $252K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 5 years of experience in performance modeling/engineering, computer architecture, co-design, or systems engineering.
  • Proficient in programming with C or Python.
  • Master's degree or PhD in a related field is preferred.
  • Experience with performance analysis for hardware/software co-design, especially pre-silicon.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct comprehensive serving performance studies on current and emerging large language models.
  • Develop and maintain advanced simulation and profiling tools to identify performance bottlenecks.
  • Collaborate with model researchers and engineering teams on architectural improvements for optimal LLM inference.
  • Use data analysis to make informed decisions on TPU/Cloud Silicon architecture roadmaps.

Benefits

  • Access to cutting-edge ML infrastructure and technology.
  • Opportunities for personal and professional development within a leading AI team.
  • Influence the direction of Google's next-generation AI silicon advancements.
  • Work within a dynamic team redefining cloud computing and AI capabilities.
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Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in performance modeling/engineering, computer architecture, co-design, or systems engineering.
  • Experience programming in C or Python.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, with an emphasis on computer architecture.
  • Experience with hardware/software co-design problems, especially performance analysis and identification at the pre-silicon stage.
  • Experience enabling and optimizing large-scale ML models (e.g., LLMs, large embedding models).
  • Experience with ML infrastructure, profiling tools, or deep learning inference/serving optimizations.
  • Familiarity with accelerator architectures.


About the job

The TPU Chip Architecture and Performance Co-design team is at the forefront of optimizing Google's custom AI silicon for next-generation machine learning models.

As a Senior Performance Co-Design Engineer, you will focus and conduct LLM Serving Studies. In this role, you will work on analyzing and optimizing the serving performance of emerging models and use cases on our custom hardware. You will also work closely with hardware architects to influence the evolution of Google's custom ML accelerators.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what's possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.
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

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Responsibilities
  • Conduct comprehensive serving performance studies on (current and emerging) LLMs (1P/3P models).
  • Develop and maintain advanced simulation, profiling, and modeling tools to identify bottlenecks, understand key characteristics and project serving workload performance.
  • Partner with model researchers, software and hardware teams to co-design architectural improvements tailored to Large Language Model (LLM) inference latency and throughput.
  • Drive data-backed decisions that influence the roadmap for future TPU/Cloud Silicon architectures.


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About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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