Software Engineer III, TPU Performance, Hardware and Software Codesign

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming

languages.

• 2 years of experience with performance, large-scale systems data analysis,

visualization tools, or debugging.

• 2 years of experience with computer architecture, performance analysis, and

performance modeling.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.

• 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.

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.

In this role, you will bridge the gap between ML workloads and custom Tensor

Processing Unit (TPU) hardware. You will analyze and optimize how distributed

systems, compiler architectures—such as Accelerated Linear Algebra (XLA)—and

emerging software abstractions, such as Compound AI and multi-step agentic

systems, execute across Google’s AI infrastructure. You will collaborate with

various product area architects within Google, such as Google Cloud and YouTube,

and external customers to systematically onboard novel workloads with engaged

performance. Your optimizations will directly drive TPU adoption, secure

pre-sales engagements, and shape our future ML infrastructure roadmap.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its

business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage

Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more

sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google

Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical

business problems.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related

skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and scale benchmarking and workload characterization strategies to

enable fast grounding-to-silicon, root-cause performance analysis, and TPU

mapping optimization.

• Drive full-stack hardware-software co-design to optimize current and future

ML accelerator architectures for business-critical production models (e.g.,

LLMs and embedding models).

• Partner with Product Areas (e.g., YouTube and Ads) to scale key workload

pipelines efficiently (Perf/$/Watts) during TPU Pilot and General

Availability (GA) transitions.

• Build and upgrade compiler-aware simulator tools, hardware cost-models, and

performance-ladder pathways to baseline and project physical silicon

capabilities.

• Distill complex performance analyses and hardware trade-offs into

presentations to guide TPU roadmap decision-making in core leadership forums

(e.g., ArchForums, NPI, BCR reviews, and TdJs).