Software Engineer, Training Infrastructure

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Snapshot

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind, we’re a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, and collaborate with others on critical challenges, ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.

You will join a ~10 size research engineering team working in Gemini. The team embeds in high priority / strategic research efforts, accelerating experimental iteration by improving the quality and capability of the tools and technology available to build large scale training systems. The team's core expertise is in reinforcement learning infrastructure and methods, distributed systems and accelerators.

The team is distributed across US, Canada, France and UK, and operates very collaboratively supporting efforts across Google DeepMind.

About us

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind, we’re a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, and collaborate with others on critical challenges, ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.

The Role

This is an individual contributor position in which you will collaborate with the other engineers in the team on unblocking progress in critical research challenges, from the scoping of technical roadmaps, and the design and implementation of new infrastructure, to the design, execution and analysis of experiments. 

As an experienced Software Engineer you will naturally gravitate around infra-heavy tasks, take responsibility for improving performance and efficiency of mid and post-training workloads, and be a role model for more junior team members. 

You will align to Gemini priorities, flexibly ramping up new research problem spaces and effectively working with a broad range of collaborators across the organization. You will work with the team TL  to steer the team's direction, and select new efforts to engage with.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate research requirements into technical roadmaps in collaboration with the other teams members
• Execute and lead on the implementation and documentation of research infra 
• Learn about the research problem space the team works in, upskill and be able to contribute to the efforts research agenda
• Support growth of more junior team members
• Add to the team culture, and be a role model of sustainability and excellence

About You

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
• The ideal candidate will have 5 years of experience building, testing, and supporting software in research .
• Proven track record of building large scale infra for research in Deep Learning, with profound understanding of:
• Accelerators (e.g. Jax & XLA stack) & performance profiling and optimization
• Analysis and debugging of training behavior
• Distributed systems, resilience and performance

Experience with Reinforcement Learning a plus.

• You communicate clearly both verbally and in writing, and are comfortable with working in a team distributed across time-zones:
• You are a good technical writer, and produce clear and succinct design docs
• You contribute constructively to an asynchronous design process
• You can produce impactful work quickly: you are equally at ease with producing library-quality code as well as whipping out prototypes to unblock quick iteration of research ideas
• You are comfortable moving around projects, supporting team-members as required, quickling ramping up on new problems, and working with a broad and diverse set of collaborators across engineering and research

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $189,000 - $350,000 bonus equity benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.