Research Engineer, AGI Safety and Alignment, DeepMind

About the role

At Google, research-focused Software Engineers are embedded throughout the company, allowing them to setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly. Ideas may come from internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world. From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, engineers work on real-world problems including artificial intelligence, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. But you stay connected to your research roots as an active contributor to the wider research community by partnering with universities and publishing papers.

Responsibilities

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• Research new alignment methods, studying alignment failures, and applying AGI-scalable alignment techniques to frontier models.
• Develop adversarially robust AGI control systems and implement them in production.
• Research interpretability techniques to understand what AI systems are thinking.
• Work with product teams to ensure that our research is correctly adopted.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related Software Engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in software development, ML engineering, or ML research.
• Experience working with research teams.

Qualifications

• Experience conducting or contributing to applied research to improve the safety and alignment of frontier AI systems.
• Experience with training large models (e.g., supervised fine-tuning, RLHF).

Skills

• Strong programming skills in Python, C++, or other relevant languages.
• Experience with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Hugging Face Transformers.
• Knowledge of reinforcement learning, natural language processing, and computer vision.

Benefits

• Google offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.

Pay

• US: $174,000 - $253,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

• Full-time