Research Scientist, Conversation

At Google DeepMind, our Research Scientists are at the forefront of developing innovative algorithmic architectures, with the ultimate goal of achieving Artificial General Intelligence.

As a member of this team, you will play a key role in the research and development of intelligent, voice-first conversational systems that introduce new agentic AI capabilities to Gemini. This position offers the chance to conduct groundbreaking research and see it through to production.

Key responsibilities

As a Researcher, you will:

• Partner with the Gemini/GDM teams to design, develop, and deploy novel multimodal conversational agents.
• Develop audio-first models capable of orchestrating and planning complex dialogs, including leveraging external tools like search when necessary.
• Leverage new sources of data (real and synthetic) to empower new real-time dialog capabilities.
• Work with infra teams to design models suitable for streaming bi-directional dialog, so the user experience is always fluid and low-latency.
• Rapidly prototype and evaluate new technologies.

• PhD in Computer Science, or Machine Learning related field.
• Experience working with LLMs.
• Demonstrated experience in data preparation, training, and evaluation of ML models.

• A strong record of publications in top-tier machine-learning related conferences
• Experience in dialog and agentic systems.
• Experience with multimodal models and processing (e.g., text / video / audio).
• Research background in NLP / Generative AI

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $141,000 - $202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.