Senior Software Engineer, Gemini Deployment and Performance, DeepMind

About the Position

Senior Software Engineer, Gemini Deployment and Performance, DeepMind

Join Google DeepMind as a Senior Software Engineer to optimize Gemini's performance, manage technical leadership, and contribute to AI innovation.

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.

Requirements

• 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.

We Offer

• Competitive salary: $262,000 - $364,000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
• Opportunity to work in a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams.
• Diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways.

About the Company

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.