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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Performance Co-Design Engineer, Google Cloud TPU - **Company:** Google LLC - **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $192,000.0 - $278,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Computer Engineering, Hardware Design, Systems Analysis, Machine Learning, Performance Tuning, Tensorflow, Google Cloud, Pytorch, Deep Learning, Information Technology, Machine Learning Operations - **Published:** August 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=669d4f35d3e68caa ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. * 10 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 architecting hardware solutions or performance optimizations for large-scale ML training and inference. * Experience with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch. * Deep understanding of ML trends, business drivers, and the software ecosystem. * Ability to engage and collaborate with hardware designers, software architects, and ML researchers. ## Description * Drive the definition and optimization of the hardware/software stack to enable performant training and serving of large ML models. * Collaborate with research and modeling teams to innovate on model architectures, focusing on scaling, quality, and their direct impact on hardware performance. * Lead the development of configurable architectural simulators and cycle-accurate performance models to quantify microarchitectural optimizations and evaluate architectural decisions. * Conduct system-level performance analysis across highly distributed ML systems, innovating new methodologies to balance compute, memory bandwidth, and inter-chip network requirements. * Engage with partners across hardware design, compiler development, and ML research to transition architectural innovations from concept to production. 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