Technical Lead, AI/ML Storage

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in a programming language.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience building or leveraging machine learning solutions and developing applications utilizing AI frameworks and methods.
• 3 years of experience building and developing infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• Experience in performance engineering, including bench marking and developing analysis frameworks for the full AI/ML stack.
• Experience in the server-side and client-side data path, specifically within storage systems (e.g., file systems, blob storage, or high-performance caching).
• Knowledge of storage infrastructure and AI/ML frameworks.

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.

The Google Cloud AI Research team addresses AI challenges motivated by Google Cloud’s mission of bringing AI to tech, healthcare, finance, retail and many other industries. We work on a range of unique problems focused on research topics that maximize scientific and real-world impact, aiming to push the state-of-the-art in AI and share findings with the broader research community. We also collaborate with product teams to bring innovations to real-world impact that benefits our customers.

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

US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.Responsibilities

• Manage AI/ML solutions, bench marking, performance investigation and storage optimizations, and client side products.
• Lead product design, develop and enhance AI/ML client libraries for storage.
• Work with various teams across GCP, including core GCS, file solutions, GKE, Cloud ML Compute Services (CMCS), and networking to drive storage innovation for AI/ML.
• Build knowledge in file systems, operating systems, performance engineering, and the evolving AI/ML landscape. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.