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Software Engineer, Systems Research, PhD, Early Career

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Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA)$147k - $211kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Research-focused software engineering role within Google’s AI and Infrastructure team, targeting foundational systems research and development for data centers, cloud environments, and ML applications.

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.

Skills

Required:PhD or equivalent research experienceProgramming languagesSystems research

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
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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