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Research Scientist, Safety Oversight, DeepMind

Google

San Jose, California

Job description

Overview

In this role you will help build classifiers and end-to-end data pipelines to detect model misbehavior and misuse. You will research cross-context monitoring systems to identify coordinated harms and develop novel signal aggregation methods across user sessions. You will think critically about monitoring using model activations, actions, chains-of-thought, and final outputs. You will collaborate with infrastructure and data science teams to scale your work and share results with the safety team to improve deployed model safety and real-world effectiveness.

Compensation / Benefits
  • bonus target (20%)
  • equity
  • benefits
  • career growth
  • collaborative culture
  • world-class team
Responsibilities
  • Build and ship classifiers and data pipelines for misbehavior detection
  • Research cross-context monitoring systems and novel signal aggregation across sessions
  • Explore monitoring signals from activations, actions, reasoning traces, and outputs
  • Collaborate with infrastructure and data science teams to scale solutions
  • Regularly share results with the Safety Oversight team
  • Develop production-grade evaluation methods to measure safety and alignment
  • Contribute to deployment-time safety surveillance and incident understanding
  • Support collaboration with Gemini and GenMedia safety teams
Key requirements
  • PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 3 years of experience building and shipping technical products
  • Experience in generative AI and Large Language Models (LLM) domain
  • 3 years of experience developing code, running experiments, and analyses with coding agents
  • Experience building large-scale, highly parallelised data pipelines
  • Experience in data quality, automated evaluation design, and simple statistical modeling
  • Ability to scale research solutions and work with production data
  • Comfort using AI tools to push frontier of model capabilities
  • collaborative
  • analytical
  • proactive
  • large-scale data pipelines
  • distributed systems
  • ML safety and monitoring

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