Senior Staff Software Engineer (TLM), Gemini Deployment and Performance, DeepMind
Mountain View, CA, USA · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years in software development; 5 years in technical leadership overseeing projects; 3 years in people management, supervision, or team leadership.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads Gemini deployment and performance work, scaling inference serving and improving production infrastructure while managing and mentoring engineers.
What you'll do
- Scale Gemini serving and tune production infrastructure to meet throughput and chip goals.
- Direct inference and efficiency strategies and drive scalable serving systems and automated validation pipelines.
- Mentor engineers and coordinate across research, inference, serving, reliability, and cloud teams.
What they ask for
- 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.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 5 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
Pay
$262000 - $364000 USD base salary
AI focus
Leads Gemini inference deployment, serving scale, and efficiency optimization; promotes an AI-first mindset.
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