Google DeepMind · New York City
Research Scientist, Socioaffective Agents
10/28/2025
Description
Research Scientists at Google DeepMind lead our efforts in developing novel algorithmic architecture towards the end goal of solving and building Artificial General Intelligence.
In this role, responsibilities will include making key contributions into the latest research developed into the Gemini workstream, such as:
Key responsibilities
- Data: Unlocking new multimodal affective capabilities in large models, both pre-training and post-training, focusing on audiovisual conversations and social agents.
- Models: Improving quality of models for understanding and generation. This includes research to improve tokenizers, better techniques for generation quality, distill for on-device, and looking at joint audio and visual representations.
- Evals: Better evaluation methods (human, auto raters, automated metrics) to measure quality of open-ended tasks.
Qualifications
- PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related field. Open also to backgrounds in Psychology (Social, Developmental, Cognitive), but must have strong Computational emphasis.
- Proven experience working with LLMs.
- Audio or video understanding and/or generation experience.
- Proven track record of research and publications in some of the following areas: audio generation, video generation
- Experience of JAX, PyTorch or similar training frameworks
- Experience in Python and/or C++
- Experience applying and productionizing state-of-the-art large audiovisual, language and/or multimodal research
- Diverse experience collaborating cross-function and with other researchers
Benefits
The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $166,000 - $244,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.