Google

Senior Staff Software Engineer, TPU Performance

Google$262K — $365K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 7 years leading ML project strategy and working with ML infrastructure.
  • 5 years in Speech/audio, reinforcement learning, or specialized ML fields.
  • 5 years in design, architecture, and testing/launching software products.
  • Proficiency in Python and C programming.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and maintain ML benchmarks representative of Google production and the broader industry.
  • Achieve performance metrics for customer launches and third-party benchmark submissions.
  • Analyze benchmarks to uncover performance opportunities through custom kernels and optimizations.
  • Engage in algorithmic innovations leveraging new TPU hardware features.
  • Co-design TPU-friendly models to ensure performance excellence compared to OSS models typically designed on GPUs.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, wellness, and retirement plans.
  • Generous vacation and leave policies.
  • Access to learning and development programs.
  • Maternity and paternity leave support.
  • Employee stock options and equity benefits.
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and working with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
  • 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 design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
  • Experience in Python and C programming.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  • 3 years of experience working in a matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
  • Experience in performance analysis and debugging, including for systems that span multiple interconnected hosts.
  • Experience in contributing to PyTorch or JAX.


About the job

Our Core Machine Learning (ML) team develops the frameworks and compilers that power the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cloud Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) service. We provide customers with large-scale, cloud-based access to Google's custom ML supercomputers, enabling them to execute massive training and inference workloads using PyTorch and JAX.

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: $262000 - $365000 (USD) 25% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Identify and maintain ML training and serving benchmarks that are representative to Google production and the broader ML industry.
  • Achieve performance for customer launches, and in case of third-party/OSS models, for engaged benchmark submissions (ML Commons, InferenceX, etc).
  • Use the benchmarks to identify performance opportunities and drive both near-term state of the art (e.g. custom kernels) and out-of the box performance (compiler/runtime optimizations, agentic tooling, auto-sharding) directly and in collaboration with partner teams.
  • Participate in algorithmic innovations exploiting new TPU hardware features and model-preserving optimizations (speculative decoding, sparsity, quantization, LoRA, etc).
  • Participate in co-designing models that are TPU-friendly to showcase model quality at performance excellent to OSS models typically designed on GPUs.


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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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