Research Scientist, AQUA

Research Scientists at Google DeepMind lead our efforts in developing novel algorithmic architecture towards the end goal of solving and building Artificial General Intelligence.

Having pioneered research in the world's leading academic and industrial labs in PhDs, post-docs or professorships, Research Scientists join Google DeepMind to work collaboratively within and across Research fields. They develop solutions to fundamental questions in machine learning and AI.

Key responsibilities:

• Design, implement and evaluate models, agents and software prototypes of large foundational models.
• Push the boundary of state of the art RL methods and machine learning optimization methods to build autonomous agents. 
• Report and present research findings and developments including status and results clearly and efficiently both internally and externally, verbally and in writing.
• Suggest and engage in team collaborations to meet ambitious research goals.
• Work with external collaborators and maintain relationships with relevant research labs and key individuals as appropriate.
• Work in collaboration with our Responsible AI teams to ensure our advances in intelligence are developed ethically and provide broad benefits to humanity.

• PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
• Strong publication record in top-tier machine learning conferences or journals.
• Solid understanding of deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and/or speech processing.
• Experience with relevant ML frameworks such as JAX, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.

• Experience with multimodal learning, large language models, and/or assistive AI agents.
• Experience with prompt engineering, few-shot learning, post-training techniques, and evaluations.
• Familiarity with large-scale model training and deployment.
• Strong programming skills in Python or similar languages.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.