Research Scientist, Frontier Ai, Google Deepmind

Google Google · Big Tech · Zürich, Switzerland

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind's Frontier AI unit, focusing on advancing AI by developing next-generation multimodal models. The role involves defining and leading research projects, designing innovative model architectures, and establishing evaluation benchmarks, with a strong emphasis on publication and collaboration.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and lead ambitious research projects, setting the technical direction and ensuring the successful execution of the research agenda.
  2. Design and implement innovative model architectures that effectively integrate diverse datasets, particularly across image and text modalities.
  3. Develop and establish benchmarks for evaluating multimodal models across a wide range of tasks and domains.
  4. Contribute to the overall research strategy of the Health team, identifying new research directions and influencing the broader research community through publications and presentations.

Skills

Required

  • PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Statistics or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience in deep learning
  • Experience with Python and neural network training
  • Experience training, evaluating, and interpreting large multimodal models and large language models

Nice to have

  • Experience in research leadership across organizations
  • Experience leading a diverse set of research scientists, research engineers, and software engineers

What the JD emphasized

  • publication record in machine learning conferences
  • 15 years of experience leading a research agenda

Other signals

  • frontier research
  • multimodal models
  • integrating and reasoning across diverse modalities
  • publication record