Google DeepMind · 2 months ago
Research Scientist, Agentic Safety
Mountain View, California, US
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior LevelDeepMind is a dedicated scientific community focused on solving intelligence for public benefit. As a Research Scientist in Strategic Initiatives, you will apply your machine learning expertise to enhance the safety of AI agents, collaborating with a team to propose and evaluate novel approaches and develop production-grade systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentFoundational AIMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Invent and implement novel recipes for making agents safer, involving both improving models that power the agents, as well as systems that are built around the agents
Develop strategies to hill-climb leaderboards and debug possible performance and safety issues in frontier agents
Integrate novel agentic technologies into research & production grade prototypes
Work with product teams to gather research requirements and consult on the deployment of research-based solutions to help deliver value incrementally
Amplify the impact by generalizing solutions into reusable libraries and frameworks for safer AI agents across Google, and by sharing knowledge through design docs, open source, or external blog posts
Qualification
Required
PhD in computer science, security or related field, or equivalent practical experience
Passion for accelerating the development of safe agents using innovative technologies, demonstrated via a portfolio of prior projects (github repos, papers, blog posts)
Strong programming experience
Demonstrated record of python implementations of LLM pipelines
Strong AI and Machine Learning background
Preferred
Experience in applying machine learning techniques to problems surrounding scalable, robust and trustworthy deployments of models
Experience with GenAI language models, programming languages, compilers, formal methods, and/or private storage solutions
Demonstrated success in creative problem solving for scalable teams and systems
A real passion for AI!
Company
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind aims to research and build safe artificial intelligence system to solve intelligence and advance science and humanity. It is a sub-organization of Google.
Founded in 2010
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2014-01-26Acquired
2011-02-01Series A
Leadership Team
Demis Hassabis
Co-Founder & CEO
Aaron Saunders
VP of Hardware Engineering, Robotics
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