Google

To be eligible for this role, you must have graduated with a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering between January 2024 to May 2025. Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Tel Aviv, Israel; Haifa, Israel.

Minimum qualifications:

• PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in C++ programming language.
• 1 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in performance modeling, performance analysis, and workload characterization.
• Experience applying machine learning techniques and inference usage models on hardware.
• Expertise in CPU architecture disciplines such as branch prediction, prefetching, value prediction, and caching policies.

About the Job

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

As a CPU Workload Analysis Researcher within Google Cloud's MSCA organization, you will be integral to developing silicon solutions powering Google's direct-to-consumer products. You will join a Research and Development team focused on analyzing and profiling workloads requirements within the Google Cloud environment. Your role will involve conducting in-depth research on CPU optimization, feature development, and ML usages over compute platforms, contributing to identifying key areas of investment and future opportunities. This role offers a unique opportunity to perform groundbreaking research with a significant impact on both research methodologies and industry products, within the server chip architecture team. Your work will directly influence the next generation of hardware experiences for millions of Google users and Cloud customers.

The ML, Systems, & Cloud AI (MSCA) organization at Google designs, implements, and manages the hardware, software, machine learning, and systems infrastructure for all Google services (Search, YouTube, etc.) and Google Cloud. Our end users are Googlers, Cloud customers and the billions of people who use Google services around the world.

We prioritize security, efficiency, and reliability across everything we do - from developing our latest TPUs to running a global network, while driving towards shaping the future of hyperscale computing. Our global impact spans software and hardware, including Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, the leading AI platform for bringing Gemini models to enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute detailed analysis of CPU workloads within the Google Cloud infrastructure, analyze trends and map future requirements.
• Collaborate closely with architecture and modeling owners to understand design specifications and identify critical scenarios related to CPU performance and efficiency.
• Develop and implement custom workload generation tools and methodologies to simulate real-world usage patterns on Google Cloud platforms.
• Analyze the impact of machine learning applications on CPU usage, identifying opportunities for optimization and feature enhancements.
• Lead the investigation and development of metrics to measure CPU performance and efficiency, presenting findings to stakeholders and contributing to strategic decisions.