Senior Software Engineer, Natural Language Processing

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Senior Software Engineer
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Description For Senior Software Engineer, Natural Language Processing

Google Research is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Natural Language Processing to join their team. This role involves researching new modeling approaches for improving multilingual capabilities of Large Language Models used on key Google products like Gemini, Search, and Cloud Vertex AI. The focus will be on pre-training multilingual models, enhancing multilingual instruction-tuning datasets, refining evaluation processes, boosting knowledge transfer across languages, and optimizing multilingual tokenization.

As a software engineer at Google, you'll work on critical projects with opportunities to switch teams as the business evolves. The role requires versatility, leadership qualities, and enthusiasm to tackle new problems across the full-stack. You'll be part of a team that's pushing technology forward, with the chance to impact products used by billions of users daily.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Writing and testing product or system development code
  • Participating in or leading design reviews
  • Reviewing code developed by other developers
  • Contributing to documentation and educational content
  • Triaging and resolving product or system issues

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning, with experience in contributing to NLP or Large Language Model research. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of AI and language technology, working with cutting-edge tools and methodologies in a collaborative, innovative environment.

Google Research is committed to making discoveries that impact everyone, sharing research and tools to fuel progress in the field. The team regularly publishes in academic journals, releases open-source projects, and applies research directly to Google products.

Join Google Research and be part of a team that's shaping the future of language technology and AI.

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Responsibilities For Senior Software Engineer, Natural Language Processing

  • Write and test product or system development code
  • Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies
  • Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices
  • Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback
  • Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality

Requirements For Senior Software Engineer, Natural Language Processing

Python
Java
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms
  • 5 years of experience with Natural Language Processing or Large Language Models
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products
  • 1 year of experience with software design and architecture
  • Experience with ML/AI algorithms and tools, deep learning or natural language processing
  • Experience contributing to Natural Language Processing or Large Language Model research, including publishing at conferences (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, COLING, neurIPS, ICML)

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