# Google DeepMind Pre-Training Lead: How To Get a Job at a Frontier Lab | Vlad Feinberg

DevFeed: [Google DeepMind Pre-Training Lead: How To Get a Job at a Frontier Lab | Vlad Feinberg](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/google-deepmind-pre-training-lead-how-to-get-a-job-at-a-frontier-lab-vlad-feinberg-18092.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.developing.dev/p/google-deepmind-pre-training-lead>)

Author: Ryan Peterman

Published: 2026-06-15T09:01:40Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The Developing Dev](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-developing-dev.md>)

Topics: [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [Kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kernel.md>), [anthropic](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/anthropic.md>), [OpenAI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openai.md>)

Tags: [anthropic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/anthropic.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kernel.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [machine-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-learning.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>)

## AI overview

A podcast conversation with Vlad Feinberg, Google DeepMind's pre-training area lead, examines how to pursue work at frontier AI labs. It discusses demand for kernel development, low-level engineering, backend engineering, efficient LLM serving, KV caching, high throughput, and low latency, along with distinctions between research and applied organizations.

## Source excerpt

Skills frontier labs need, differences between software engineering and research, concrete steps engineers can take