Senior Software Engineer, Gemini Deployment and Performance, DeepMind

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience in software development.

• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects.
• 3 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership

role.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related

technical field.

• 5 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.

ABOUT THE JOB:

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just

Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to

take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a

team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers

are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your

project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams

work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial

intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale

system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design;

the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our

exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you

guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple

teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of

large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative

inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional

interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex

global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of

users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific

discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

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: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

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

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Scale Gemini serving to billions of daily requests and millions of

developers, landing infrastructure and tuning improvements in production

endpoints to hit company YoY TPS/chip goals.

• Direct inference and efficiency strategies, sustaining Pareto-optimal

performance against rapidly evolving SOTA.

• Mentor and grow engineers while cultivating technical excellence, high

agency, collaboration, and an AI-first mindset.

• Partner across Research, Inference Engine, Model Server, Serving,

Reliability, and Cloud AI, navigating cross-stack dependencies to accelerate

landing SOTA techniques.

• Serve as technical authority on the serving stack, driving high scalability

and automating validation pipelines to accelerate turnaround from checkpoint

drop to production release.