Material Science Research Engineer, Deepmind

Google Google · Big Tech · Mountain View, CA +1

Research Engineer at Google DeepMind focused on applying ML techniques to material science problems, prototyping ML models, improving architectures and training, and implementing research tools. The role involves exploratory analysis, reporting results, and potentially developing custom LLM agents.

What you'd actually do

  1. Plan and perform rapid prototyping of machine learning techniques applied to problems in science.
  2. Undertake exploratory analysis to inform experimentation and research directions.
  3. Make improvements to model architectures and training procedures of machine learning models.
  4. Implement tools, libraries, and frameworks to speed up and enable new research.
  5. Report and present software developments, experimental results, and data analysis clearly and efficiently.

Skills

Required

  • JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow
  • data exploration or data analysis
  • linear algebra, calculus and statistics
  • software engineering principles in a scientific research environment

Nice to have

  • transformers, diffusion models
  • LLM agents or tool-using systems
  • concurrent and distributed software algorithms and architectures
  • inorganic chemistry, solid-state physics, or materials synthesis
  • large-scale scientific simulations

What the JD emphasized

  • equivalent practical experience
  • equivalent practical experience

Other signals

  • applying machine learning techniques to problems in science
  • improvements to model architectures and training procedures
  • implement tools, libraries, and frameworks to speed up and enable new research
  • experience applying modern deep learning architectures to chemistry or materials science issues