Research Scientist Tech Lead, Contextual Security

As a Technical Lead and Manager for Contextual Security in the GDM Security & Privacy Research team, you will be responsible for:

• Lead the existing team to address key challenges in contextual security with connections to prompt injection, from leading the fundamental research to providing out the solutions for key products. 
• Manage a team of researchers with extensive background in security and machine learning, as well as grow the team to keep up with the rapid evolving space of contextual security problems
• Identifying unsolved, impactful privacy & security problems present in generative models through auto-red teaming, with priorities guided by securing critical products and product features  
• Building post-training data and tools hypothesised to improve model capabilities in the problem areas, testing the hypotheses through evaluations and auto-red teaming, and contributing successful solutions into Gemini and other models.
• Amplifying the impact by generalizing solutions into reusable libraries and frameworks for protecting agents and models across Google, and by sharing knowledge through publications, open source, and education.

• PhD in Computer Science or related quantitative field OR 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience driving complex research projects in AI security, security, privacy or safety 
• Experience managing teams of ~5-10 individual contributors

• Demonstrated experience driving complex projects to landing in production or adoption in open source
• Demonstrated experience in adapting research outputs into impactful model improvements, in a rapidly shifting landscape and with a strong sense of ownership.

• Research experience and publications in ML security, privacy, safety, or alignment.
• Experience working on contextual security or prompt injection.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $248,000 USD - 349,000 USD + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.