Research Scientist, Sound Understanding, DeepMind

About the role

Research Scientist on the Sound team within Google DeepMind Frontier AI, focused on audio understanding, transformation, and generation. The role involves advancing research in sound understanding, joint audio-video generation, and audio editing, contributing to the next generation of generative AI technology.

Responsibilities

• Improve quality of models for audio understanding and generation, including research on architectures, representations, training losses and paradigms, and test-time techniques for improved generation quality and efficiency.
• Unlock new audio capabilities in foundational models, both in pre-training and post-training data pipelines.
• Develop better evaluation methods (human evaluation, auto raters, automated metrics) to measure quality of open-ended audio tasks.
• Publish research at venues and contribute to Google DeepMind products.
• Collaborate across teams to advance research in sound understanding, joint audio-video generation, and audio editing.

Requirements

• PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with text, image, video, or audio generation.
• Experience in Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning.
• Experience with Generative AI.

Preferred qualifications

• PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
• One or more scientific publication submission(s) for conferences, journals, or public repositories.
• Experience developing, launching products, or technologies with Large Language Models (LLMs).

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications: PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with text, image, video, or audio generation.
• Experience in Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning.
• Experience with Generative AI.

Skills

• Experience with text, image, video, or audio generation.
• Experience in Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning.
• Experience with Generative AI.

Benefits

• Google offers a comprehensive benefits package including individual pay determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
• US: $147000 - $211000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits.

Pay

• US: $147000 - $211000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits.

Schedule

• Not specified.

Benefits

• Not specified.