Senior Software Engineer, Gemini Audio, DeepMind

Senior Software Engineer, Gemini Audio, DeepMind Location: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA . Minimum qualifications Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. 5 years of experience with software development in Python. 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture. Experience with compiler optimization, code generation, and runtime systems for popular accelerators, including GPU or TPU. Experience with Machine Learning, Machine Learning Optimization, Performance Optimization, and Large Language Models. Preferred qualifications Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field. Experience with TPU architectures, memory hierarchies, performance bottlenecks, and Accelerated Linear Algebra. Experience tailoring algorithms and ML models to exploit TPU architecture strengths and minimize weaknesses. Experience with various stack layers: compilers (OpenXLA, MLIR), serving libraries/frameworks (vLLM, sglang) and ML frameworks (JAX, PyTorch). Debugging experience to improve performance of single-mode or multi-mode (distributed) systems. About the job Members of the team work on research and develop audio representations that best captures both the semantic and acoustic information within the audio signal to enable Gemini models to understand audio inputs and also generates natural audio sounds. This builds the foundation for audio-to-audio dialog models, text-to-speech, speech-to-speech translation, duplex audio dialogs. Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. 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Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain training infrastructure to support Gemini Audio encoder and pretraining models, focusing on Accelerated Linear Algebra (XLA) optimization for training on Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). Implement tools to analyze and track audio model training efficiency and health. Contribute and work closely with Gemini to build and maintain audio related components. Collaborate with research teams across Gemini Audio to improve the model training and inference efficiency. Information collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Google's Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. 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