Senior Staff Software Engineer (TLM), Gemini Deployment and Performance
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 30, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 21, 2026.
About the job
Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.
With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.
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.
We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Scale Gemini serving to billions of daily requests and millions of developers, landing infrastructure and tuning improvements in production endpoints to hit company YoY TPS/chip goals.
- Direct inference and efficiency strategies, sustaining Pareto-optimal performance against rapidly evolving SOTA.
- Mentor and grow engineers while cultivating technical excellence, high agency, collaboration, and an AI-first mindset.
- Partner across Research, Inference Engine, Model Server, Serving, Reliability, and Cloud AI, navigating cross-stack dependencies to accelerate landing SOTA techniques.
- Serve as technical authority on the serving stack, driving high scalability and automating validation pipelines to accelerate turnaround from checkpoint drop to production release.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects.
- 3 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 5 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.