Research Scientist, Gemini Safety

About the role

The role of the Research Scientist / Research Engineer will be to apply and develop data and algorithmic cutting edge solutions to advance GDM’s latest user-facing models. The workstyle is fast paced, and highly collaborative. The team has a strong culture of support, dedication and collaboration.

Key responsibilities

• Post-training / instruction tuning state of the art LLMs, focusing on text-to-text, image/video/audio-to-text modalities and agentic capabilities
• Exploring data, reasoning and algorithmic solutions to make sure Gemini Models are safe, maximally helpful, and work for everyone.
• Improve Gemini’s adversarial robustness, with a focus on high-stakes abuse risks.
• Design and maintain high quality evaluation protocols to assess model behavior gaps and headroom related to safety and fairness.
• Develop and execute experimental plans to address known gaps, or construct entirely new capabilities.
• Drive innovation and enhance understanding of Supervised Fine Tuning and Reinforcement Learning fine-tuning at scale.

About You

• PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant LLM post-training experience.
• In addition, the following would be an advantage:
• Experience in Reward modeling and Reinforcement Learning for LLMs
• Instruction tuning
• Experience with Long-range Reinforcement learning
• Experience in areas such as Safety, Fairness and Alignment
• Track record of publications at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, RL/DL, EMNLP, AAAI, UAI
• Experience taking research from concept to product
• Experience with collaborating or leading an applied research project

Qualifications

• Experience with JAX

Benefits

At Google DeepMind, we value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.