Software Engineer, Phd, Early Careers, Google Cloud

Google Google · Big Tech · Taipei, Taiwan

Google is seeking a Software Engineer with a PhD for their AI and Infrastructure team in Taipei. This role focuses on developing and scaling AI and infrastructure capabilities for Google customers, including internal teams, Google Cloud customers, and end-users worldwide. Responsibilities include writing product/system development code, participating in design reviews, code reviews, contributing to documentation, and triaging/debugging system issues. The role requires a PhD in Computer Science or equivalent, and experience with C, C++, Java, or Python, and distributed systems. Experience with performance analysis, large-scale systems, and debugging is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Write product or system development code.
  2. Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
  3. Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  4. Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  5. 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.

Skills

Required

  • PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience coding in one of the following programming languages: C, C++, Java or Python
  • Experience in one or more of the following: architecting or developing distributed systems, concurrency, multi-threading, or synchronization

Nice to have

  • 1 year of experience with performance, large scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging
  • Experience in code and system health diagnosis and resolution, and software test engineering
  • Experience developing accessible technologies
  • Ability to start full-time role in 2026