Research Engineer, Pretraining, DeepMind
Deepmind
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At Google, research-focused Software Engineers are embedded throughout the company, allowing them to setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly. Ideas may come from internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.
From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, engineers work on real-world problems including artificial intelligence, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. But you stay connected to your research roots as an active contributor to the wider research community by partnering with universities and publishing papers.
Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. 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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $174,000-$252,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Responsibilities
- Focus on inference-optimized model design for Gemini pretraining.
- Understand common XLA primitives and how JAX code runs on TPUs in practice.
- Work across the LLM preparation stack (e.g., pretraining, fine tuning, serving) to deliver strong models.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Applied Stats, Machine Learning, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with inference-optimized model design.
- Experience working with product teams.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience conducting applied research to improve the quality and training/serving efficiency of large transformer-based models.
- Experience with fine-tuning large models (e.g., supervised, RLHF).
Summary
Design inference-optimized models, work on large language models, improve training and serving efficiency.
Job title
Research Engineer, Pretraining
Experience level
5+ years
Industry
software
Location requirements
New York, NY, USA, on-site, no remote work allowed
Salary
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $174,000-$252,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
Management role
No
Required skills
Preferred skills
Specializations
Structured locations inferred from the posting.
New York, NY, USA