Senior Software Engineer, Generative AI, Google Research

Job description

info_outline 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. As a Software Engineer on the Performance Simulation team, you will design and develop simulation software and AI-driven platforms that model how AI workloads (e.g., Gemini, MoE thinking/reasoning models, long-context serving) execute on applicant hardware architectures.

Operating at the critical boundary between frontier ML models and future accelerator roadmaps, you will build and automate cycle-level and analytical performance estimators to project throughput, latency SLOs, and Perf/TCO across different silicon configurations (SRAM/HBM hierarchies, multi-dimensional ICI interconnects, optical switching, and specialized compute engines like SparseCore). You will integrate LLM-driven agentic workflows to automate sweep generation, parameter exploration, data retrieval, and bottleneck diagnosis—accelerating hardware/software decisions.

Google Research is building the next generation of intelligent systems for all Google products. To achieve this, we’re working on projects that utilize the latest computer science techniques developed by skilled software developers and research scientists. Google Research teams collaborate closely with other teams across Google, maintaining the flexibility and versatility required to adapt new projects and foci that meet the demands of the world's fast-paced business needs.

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

US

$174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more about benefits at Google .