Software Engineer III, Performance

Job description

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 computer architecture, performance analysis, and performance modeling. Experience experimenting with AI agents or LLM-powered agentic workflows. Experience in systems engineering.

Preferred qualifications

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields. Experience with low-level accelerator programming (e.g., CUDA, Triton, Pallas) and performance tuning techniques. 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. Our team is delivering state-of-the-art performance on OSS models to showcase the capabilities TPUs, to both in industry competitions and to optimize these models so our public customers can leverage the optimization recipes in their own models.

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 .