Research Scientist, Sound Team

Research Scientists at Google DeepMind lead our efforts in developing novel algorithmic architectures towards the end goal of solving and building Artificial General Intelligence. We seek individuals who are passionate about audio and developing novel architectures to push the state of art. In this role, you will make key contributions advancing research in sound understanding, joint audio-video generation, and audio editing.

Key responsibilities:

• Data: Unlocking new audio capabilities within the model, both in pre-training and post-training.
• Models: Improving quality of models for understanding and generation. This includes research to improve our tokenizers, better techniques for generation quality, and looking at joint audio and visual representations. 
• Evals: Better evaluation methods (human, auto raters, automated metrics) to measure quality of open-ended tasks.

• PhD in Computer Science, or a related Machine Learning field.
• Audio understanding and/or generation experience.
• A proven track record of research and publications in some of the following areas: audio generation, video generation, LLMs.

• Experience working with LLMs.
• A real passion for Audio and Sound!

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.