Software Engineer, GDC LLM Serving and GPU Performance

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.

Want to shape the future of how Google serves its most advanced Large Language Models? Join the GDC AI Models and Performance team and work on AI infrastructure.

Imagine re-inventing LLM serving by contributing to our disaggregated serving initiatives - separating compute and memory to unlock new levels of performance and flexibility. You could be optimizing Key-Value (KV) cache transfer mechanisms, designing dynamic resource allocation strategies, or building the next generation of performance analysis tools to dissect and enhance GPU utilization. This is a unique opportunity to go deep, from system-level design down to performance profiling, ensuring Google’s LLMs run faster and more cost-effectively than ever before.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits, * Design, develop, and implement enhancements to the LLM serving stack, focusing on performance, scalability, and resource efficiency (e.g., on systems like Wiz, Servomatic).

• Contribute to the design and implementation of advanced serving architectures, including disaggregated serving.
• Build and maintain infrastructure and tooling for in-depth performance analysis, profiling, and benchmarking of LLM models on GPU accelerators.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks across the stack, working closely with teams providing core GPU libraries and kernels.
• Collaborate with research, engineering, and SRE teams to optimize and deploy LLMs in production.

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain., * Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 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 ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning)., * 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 in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

XIn 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

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