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Google DeepMind · 11 hours ago

Research Scientist, Socioaffective Agents

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$166K/yr - $244K/yr

Google DeepMind is a team of scientists and engineers dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence for public benefit and scientific discovery. The Research Scientist will lead efforts in developing novel algorithmic architecture and contribute to various research topics, focusing on socio-emotional understanding and generation tasks.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentMachine Learning

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Prototyping: Developing new human-AI interaction experiences that waypoint and make tangible a positive future of relational and emotional AIs

Data: Unlocking new multimodal affective capabilities in large models, both pre-training and post-training, focusing on social agents

Models: Improving quality of models for understanding and generation. This may include research on improving tokenizers, training with implicit rewards, and/or general model behavior via fine-tuning

Evals: Better evaluation methods (human, auto raters, automated metrics) to measure quality of open-ended tasks

Qualification

PhD in AIMLLLMsAffective computing researchExperience in PythonExperience in C++JAXPyTorchPublications in AICross-functional collaboration

Required

PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related field. Open also to backgrounds in Psychology (Social, Developmental, Cognitive), but must have strong Computational emphasis

Proven experience working with LLMs. Must have some multimodal experience, even if not a main focus

Proven track record of research and publications in one or more of the following areas: affective computing or sciences, LLM benchmarking, conversational design, audio/video generation

Preferred

Experience of JAX, PyTorch or similar training frameworks

Experience in Python and/or C++

Experience applying and productionizing state-of-the-art multimodal research

Diverse experience collaborating cross-function and with other researchers

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

Google DeepMind

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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