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Google DeepMind · 1 week ago

Research Engineer, Frontier Safety Risk Assessment

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$136K/yr - $245K/yr

Google DeepMind is a team of scientists and engineers working to advance artificial intelligence for public benefit. The Research Engineer role involves assessing and managing risks from frontier AI systems, requiring both research and engineering skills to develop novel approaches for risk measurement and mitigation.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentFoundational AIMachine Learning

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsored

Responsibilities

Identifying new risk pathways within current areas (loss of control, ML R&D, cyber, CBRN, harmful manipulation) or in new ones

Conceiving of, designing, and developing new ways to measure pre-mitigation and post-mitigation risk

Forecasting and scenario planning for future risks which are not yet material

Qualification

PythonDeep LearningRisk AssessmentMachine LearningExperiment DesignCommunication SkillsCollaboration

Required

Extensive research experience with deep learning and/or foundation models (for example, but not necessarily, a PhD in machine learning)

Adept at generating ideas and designing experiments, and implementing these in Python with real AI systems

Keen to address risks from foundation models, and have thought about how to do so

Plan for your research to impact production systems on a timescale between 'immediately' and 'a few years'

Excited to work with strong contributors to make progress towards a shared ambitious goal

Strong, clear communication skills, confident engaging technical stakeholders to share research insights tailored to their background

Preferred

Experience in areas such as frontier risk assessment and/or mitigations, safety, and alignment

Engineering experience with LLM training and inference

PhD in Computer Science or Machine Learning related field

A track record of publications at venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, RL/DL, EMNLP, AAAI and UAI

Experience with collaborating or leading an applied research project

Benefits

Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave

Private medical and dental insurance for yourself and any dependents

Flexible working options

Healthy food

An on-site gym

Faith rooms

Terraces

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