Software Engineer, PhD, Early Career, 2026
Google · Posted Nov 8
Search engine, cloud computing, software, hardware, and artificial intelligence services
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About the role
Google's software engineers develop next-generation technologies at massive scale. Within Google Cloud, the AI and Infrastructure (AI2) organization builds and manages software, hardware, and ML systems infrastructure for services including Search, YouTube, and Google Cloud products. The PhD Software Engineer will design and develop large-scale distributed systems and apply research expertise across AI/ML, networking, data storage, security, and distributed systems.
What you will do
- Define and drive the technical goal for next-generation distributed systems.
- Design, develop, and implement scalable, reliable, and high-performance large-scale distributed systems.
- Apply specialized research expertise to the design, analysis, and development of complex systems across the stack.
- Investigate, diagnose, and resolve technical issues by analyzing root causes and impact.
- Write and review code, ensuring adherence to best practices in style, accuracy, testability, and efficiency.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience in software development, with a focus on areas such as large-scale distributed systems, AI/ML, networking, data storage, or security.
- Experience in architecture or development of distributed systems, including concurrency, multi-threading, or synchronization.
- Experience in algorithms, complexity analysis, and system design.
- Experience coding in one of the following programming languages including but not limited to: C, C++, Python Java or Golang.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in areas such as algorithms, architecture, artificial intelligence, compilers, databases, data mining, distributed systems, machine learning, networking, or general systems.
- Expertise in designing and implementing complex systems for either production or experimental use.
- Proficiency in performance analysis or the analysis of systems data.
- Demonstrated success in publishing peer-reviewed articles in prestigious conferences or journals (e.g., ACL, KDD, SOSP, Nature).
- Availability to commence a full-time position in 2026.
- Exceptional engineering capabilities.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Google
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company focusing on artificial intelligence, online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, and consumer electronics. As a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., it is widely recognized for services like Google Search, YouTube, Android, and the Gemini AI ecosystem.
- Industry
- Internet
- Company size
- 180000+ employees
- Founded
- 1998-09-04
- Location
- Mountain View, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $25M raised
- 1999-06-07Series A$25M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer
Chief Executive Officer, Google Cloud
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