Google DeepMind is looking to accelerate the discovery of new functional materials by combining AI and computational simulation with automated experimentation.
Requirements
- Dedicated software engineer with experience in software design and development, obtained either through a degree or applied experience.
- Proven experience in Python, C++, and interoperability between the two.
- Experience with concurrent and distributed software algorithms and architectures.
- Experience applying software engineering principles in a scientific research environment.
- Scientific knowledge (particularly materials science, chemistry, or physics).
- Experience with high-performance computing (HPC) and running high-throughput scientific simulations at scale.
- Applied experience with scientific simulations (e.g. molecular dynamics, computational chemistry simulations, etc.).
Responsibilities
- Use your domain knowledge in the sciences (if applicable) to design, develop and implement high-performance simulations, tools, and analysis workflows.
- Apply your software engineering expertise to produce high quality, reusable code and components to tackle meaningful strategic problems.
- Share ideas with other specialists in the team and be highly collaborative, striving to cultivate a culture of continuous development and advancement.
- Employ cutting-edge technology and techniques to contribute to solving some of the hardest problems.
- Incorporate your passion for software engineering and high performance computing to enable running scientific calculations at scale and accelerate scientific discovery.
- Collaborate with other researchers and engineers to develop infrastructure for running experiments and help researchers explore new applications of AI and LLMs to materials science.
Other
- Passionate about using computation to advance science.
- May take part in exploratory work that enables validating early ideas, or work in a maturing area to deepen and build infrastructure to exploit a promising line of research.
- May also contribute to the scientific knowledge and experience of the team with your own scientific domain knowledge.
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $141,000 - $202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
- Offer of employment will be conditional on the results of a background check.
