TPU Co-Design Engineer, Google Cloud

• Define and drive the technical roadmap and architecture for the hardware/software stack, ensuring unparalleled performance for the training and serving of large ML models.
• Act as the technical liaison between advanced research, software, and hardware teams, steering model architecture innovation to maximize scaling, quality, and hardware efficiency.
• Architect and oversee the development of next-generation configurable simulation frameworks and cycle-accurate performance models, setting the standard for how the organization evaluates complex micro-architectural decisions.
• Advocate system-level performance analysis across highly distributed ML systems, innovating new methodologies to balance compute, memory bandwidth, and inter-chip network requirements.
• Manage cross-functional partnerships across hardware engineering, compiler development, and ML research to influence broad organizational strategy and transition paradigm-shifting concepts into production.

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain., * Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 12 years of experience in computer architecture, chip architecture, or hardware-software co-design.
• Experience developing systems for performance modeling, simulation, or system analysis., * Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, with an emphasis on computer architecture.
• Experience as a lead architect driving multi-generational hardware solutions or performance optimizations for massive-scale ML training and inference.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) and their underlying execution models.
• Knowledge of semiconductor trajectories, including process, memory, interconnects, and packaging.
• Understanding of ML trends, business drivers, and the software ecosystem.
• Ability to engage and align stakeholders, hardware designers, and the global ML research community.

As a Senior Staff Co-Design Engineer on the TPU Chip Architecture team, you will bridge the gap between model architecture innovation and next-generation hardware design. Operating at the intersection of AI research and infrastructure engineering, you will define the long-term strategic outlook and architectural roadmap for our future machine learning training and serving capabilities. You will advocate the integration of foundational ML research-such as massive-scale frontier models-with advanced custom silicon architectures to deliver industry-defining, high-performance, and power-efficient 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 team 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.

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