Google

Software Engineer, GPU Performance

Google$147K — $211K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of software development experience with programming languages or 1 year with an advanced degree.
  • Experience in low-level GPU programming (CUDA, Triton, CUTLASS, etc.).
  • Familiarity with modern GPU architectures and performance engineering.
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or similar is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Build optimizations for cutting-edge GPUs powering critical Google products.
  • Address significant performance bottlenecks using advanced GPU tooling and experience.
  • Drive GPU software stack optimizations from compilers to high performance kernel enhancements.
  • Influence GPU software ecosystem technical direction through collaboration.
  • Coordinate with product teams to optimize the deployment of Google's GPU fleet.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
  • 401(k) plan with company matching.
  • 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years.
  • 40 hours of sick time per year, with additional time for Seattle.
  • 28-30 weeks of maternity leave and 18 weeks of baby bonding leave.
  • 13 paid holidays each year.
Full Job Description
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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.

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
  • Experience low-level GPU programming (CUDA, Triton, CUTLASS, etc.) and performance engineering techniques.
  • Experience with modern GPU architectures (NVIDIA, AMD, or other AI accelerators), memory hierarchies, and performance bottlenecks.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms in either an academic or industry setting.
  • Experience with compiler optimization, code generation, and runtime systems for GPU architectures (OpenXLA, MLIR, Triton, etc.).
  • Understanding of modern Large Language Models (LLMs) and their deployment on AI accelerators.


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.

While known for pioneering work with TPUs, GPUs are an equally vital and rapidly expanding frontier within Google's machine learning infrastructure. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are indispensable to Google's ever-evolving landscape for strategic, pragmatic, and performance-driven reasons ensuring top performance for our ML models, adapting to ML workloads, achieving results, and influencing next-gen GPU architectures via strategic partnerships.

In recognition of hardware as a strength, Google's Core ML organization is heavily invested in growing a powerhouse team of GPU experts, and we invite you to be at its vanguard. This is your opportunity to move beyond incremental improvements and architect truly transformative solutions, shaping the future of AI and accelerated computing for Google and the world.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $147,000-$211,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Build optimizations for the latest generation of GPUs that power Google's most critical products and services, impacting billions of users worldwide.
  • Address the most challenging performance bottlenecks through Google's unparalleled access to the latest generation of GPUs, tooling, and a decade of experience building AI accelerators.
  • Drive optimizations across Google's GPU software stack from ML compiler cost model design to optimizing high performance GPU kernels to cross node model serving configurations.
  • Influence the technical direction of the GPU software ecosystem at Google by collaborating with ML, compiler design, and systems architecture.
  • Influence the deployment of Google's GPU fleet by working with various product teams across Google.


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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$40.2 billion
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1998
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