Software Engineer, Systems Research, PhD, Early Career

About the job

Researchers across Google are working to advance the state of the art in computing and build the next generation of intelligent systems for all Google products. To achieve this, we invest in foundational research and work on projects that utilize the latest computer science techniques developed by skilled software developers and research scientists. Whether we're shaping the future of sustainability, optimizing algorithms, or pioneering AI systems, our teams strive to continuously progress science, advance society, and improve the lives of billions of people.

Responsibilities

• Explore emerging technologies and systems as an individual contributor in the research and development team.
• Participate in team projects to carry out system design, analysis, and building of prototypes to demonstrate advantages and reveal challenges of these technologies for a broad range of applications in the data center and modern Cloud environments, including machine learning.
• Create strategies that will lead to innovative projects and follow-on products for the future.
• Operate across research and engineering teams in order to influence products or integrate research results into products.

Qualifications

• PhD degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience coding in one of the following programming languages including but not limited to: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, or Golang.
• Research experience in an area of computer systems design and implementation.

Benefits

• 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

Pay

• US: $147000 - $211000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

• Not specified

Skills

• Experience in Research areas such as storage systems, memory systems, distributed systems and networks, novel I/O systems, computer architecture and accelerators, databases and analytics, cloud computing, sustainability, privacy, or other emerging technologies.
• Experience in systems for Machine Learning (ML).
• Experience designing and implementing an experimental system in a research or product development environment.