Senior Research Engineer, Genmedia Safety, Deepmind

Google Google · Big Tech · Mountain View, CA +3

Research Engineer focused on safety and behavior of image and video generation models, balancing user experience, safety, and scalability. Will work on core image and video generation capabilities and successor models, impacting millions of users and influencing product areas like Gemini, Cloud API, Search, and YouTube. Requires PhD, experience leading research, and ML/language modeling expertise.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop solutions for GenMedia models that balance user experience, safety, and scalability.
  2. Utilize data and algorithmic reasoning to ensure image-generation models remain safe, and helpful.
  3. Collaborate with policy experts to convert, ambiguous safety guidelines into actionable technical implementations.
  4. Design and maintain protocols to identify and bridge gaps in model safety.
  5. Execute experiments to inform safety strategies while innovating rapid, scalable mitigations for high-priority, time-sensitive escalations.

Skills

Required

  • PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience leading a research agenda.
  • 2 years of experience with machine learning algorithms, research methodologies, and language modeling.

Nice to have

  • 1 year of experience leading research efforts and influencing other researchers.

What the JD emphasized

  • safety
  • image generation models
  • video generation models
  • safety guidelines
  • model safety
  • safety strategies
  • escalations

Other signals

  • Developing and deploying innovations for image and video generation models.
  • Balancing user experience, safety, and scalability in AI models.
  • Collaborating with policy experts to translate safety guidelines into technical implementations.
  • Designing and maintaining protocols for model safety.
  • Executing experiments to inform safety strategies and develop mitigations.