Research Software Engineer, AI and Systems Research

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**Minimum qualifications:**

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 1 year of experience with one or more of the following: speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
• 1 year of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).

**Preferred qualifications:**

• Experience developing low-level systems software.
• Experience with the Rust programming language.
• Experience with generative AI and AI agents.
• Experience with BPF and the linux kernel.
• A record of published research papers at high-impact venues in systems or programming languages or AI/ML.

**About the job**

A line of code can be many things - an amazing feature, a beautiful UI, a transformative algorithm. The faster this line of code reaches millions of users, the sooner it impacts their lives. As a Software Engineer, Tools and Infrastructure, you will be at the heart of Google’s engineering process building software that empowers engineering teams to develop and deliver high quality products quickly. We are focused on solving the hardest, most interesting challenges of developing software at scale without sacrificing stability, quality, velocity or code health.

We ensure Google's success by partnering with engineering teams and developing scalable tools and infrastructure that help engineers develop, test, debug and release software quickly. We impact thousands of Googlers and billions of users by increasing the pace of product development and ensuring our products are thoroughly tested. We are advocates for code health, testability, maintainability and best practices for development and testing.

Having access to all of Google's platforms and vast compute resources provides a unique opportunity to grow as an engineer. We typically work in small, nimble teams that collaborate on common problems across products and focus areas. As a result, the exposure to this broad set of problems provides technical challenges as well as accelerated career growth.

In this role, you will be part of an ambitious, high-impact project to transform critical infrastructure at Google using state-of-the-art techniques from operating systems, programming languages, and machine learning. The project is part of Google’s investment in innovative AI agents and systems for language translation to enhance the security, software engineering, and continuous improvement of its system software infrastructure.

**Responsibilities**

• Explore emerging technologies and systems as an individual contributor in the research and development team.
• Participate in a team to carry out system design, analysis, and building of prototypes to demonstrate advantages and reveal challenges of these technologies for critical, large-scale applications.
• Create strategies that will help the team navigate a complex and challenging problem.
• Operate across Research and Engineering teams.

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