Software Engineer, Worlds

At Google DeepMind, we're seeking a talented lead engineer passionate about leveraging simulation and rendering technologies to provide high-quality data for AI research. As a Software Engineer in the Worlds team, you'll play a key role in accelerating the generation and delivery of image and video datasets to enhance the capabilities of the next generation of Google DeepMind's models.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing technology choices and technical direction
• Delegating work areas to team members
• Improving tooling to accelerate dataset creation and enhance capabilities
• Building collaborations and delivering datasets to research partners
• Showcasing Worlds visual dataset generation capabilities to other teams
• Championing continuous improvement, diversity, mentoring, and inclusion on the team
• Hands-on technical contributions to support delivery and keep the team unblocked
• Developing metrics to track performance, effectiveness, and identify new opportunities
• Building strong cross-functional relationships within and beyond your immediate team

The ideal candidate should have:

• A track record of leading and delivering complex technical projects
• Python or C++ programming experience
• Software design, development, and testing skills
• Experience with game engines, VFX tools, large-scale data generation using simulations, applying machine learning techniques to simulations, or content creation tool development

Additional advantageous skills include:

• Procedural generation systems
• Computer graphics / rendering
• Working with the OpenUSD format
• Data processing / conversion pipelines
• Working within multidisciplinary teams and in a research environment
• People management
• Physics programming
• Computer vision
• Sim-to-real transfer

Join us in this unique opportunity to directly impact the speed and efficiency with which Google delivers innovative AI-powered products and features to users. Be part of a diverse team that values experience, knowledge, backgrounds, and perspectives to create extraordinary impact.