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Staff Software Engineer, Performance and Kernel, DeepMind

Google$207K — $300K *
Information 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.
  • 5 years of testing and launching software products.
  • 5 years in power or performance modeling or system performance analysis.
  • 5 years with Linux Kernel development and architecture.
  • 3 years in software design and architecture.

Responsibilities

  • Write low-level performance software for new systolic array accelerators.
  • Identify high-value algorithms that match new machine capabilities.
  • Build programming infrastructure for ease of use by software engineers.
  • Collaborate with experts to create efficient and performant solutions.
  • Communicate performance and efficiency results with internal and partner teams.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in diverse global teams.
  • Access to varied career pathways in cutting-edge technology.
  • Collaboration with top machine learning and neuroscience researchers.
  • Involvement in state-of-the-art AI and hardware projects.
  • Flexible working location options among major tech hubs.
Full Job Description
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X Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; Zürich, Switzerland; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
  • 5 years of experience in power or performance modeling or system performance analysis.
  • 5 years of experience with Linux Kernel development and software and hardware architecture.
  • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

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.
  • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  • Deep expertise in at least some of the following: operating systems, networking systems, storage systems, analytics, machine learning, working with distributed query processing and deep functional flows.


About the job

At DeepMind our mission is to build the world's first general-purpose learning agent. Central to this mission is the complex task of measuring the intelligence of our prototypes. As a Software Engineer, you will be working with the cutting edge AI agents developed by our exceptional team of Machine Learning and Neuroscience research scientists. Your responsibilities will include everything from creating systems for agent testing using 2D and 3D games to developing test problems within physics simulators. You will create graphical visualization of results, build competitive agent leaderboards and test new algorithms on robots. To succeed in this role you will need to have a strong foundation in software engineering and enjoy working on a wide range of challenging problems within a mission-driven team.

Accelerators have become a strategic differentiator in today's hyperscale AI competition. Unlike classic data center infrastructure, these new codesigned systems must meet future demands as our workloads continue to evolve and mutate. Through our projects, we are deploying new hardware in Google data centers to drive enhanced capabilities and efficiency, partnering closely with the teams responsible for Google's technical infrastructure to successfully deliver these systems.

We are a co-design team within DeepMind's GenAI Systems, operating across Google's vertically integrated stack. Our expertise spans hardware including architecture, logic design, design verification, and physical design software, such as compilation, performance optimization, libraries, operating systems, and kernels, and algorithms, covering ML model design, optimization methods, numerics, and sparsity. In these fields, we conduct research while delivering production-quality hardware and software products.

We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) 20% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Write low-level performance software for a new systolic array accelerators.
  • Identify high-value algorithms and problems that are a match to this new machines.
  • Use that direct experience delivering production code to build programming infrastructure to ease programming on the new accelerator for the performance software engineers and general software engineers who follow.
  • Collaborate with application, algorithm, and performance-tuning experts to codesign solutions for the best efficiency, performance, and programmability.
  • Communicate the performance, programmability, and efficiency results to our team and to our partner teams.


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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