Research Engineer, Responsible Frontier AI Research, DeepMind

Requirements

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • Experience working on AI safety or responsible AI research.

Nice to Haves

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field focused on Machine Learning.
  • Experience in Python and C++ for high-performance machine learning library development.
  • Experience with large language model demitigation, adversarial robustness, harmful manipulation detection, or AI safety evaluation and mitigation.
  • Experience building evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, or automated testing pipelines for machine learning models.
  • Prior direct experience in AI safety or responsible AI research.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Prototype and deliver scalable engineering solutions across the Responsibility research portfolio.
  • Architect and optimize training and inference pipelines to detect and evaluate harmful manipulation behaviors in frontier language models.
  • Develop post-training strategies to mitigate manipulation risks such as deceptive persuasion, sycophancy, and covert influence tactics.
  • Collaborate with research scientists to translate safety research into robust implementations and present results to cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Build and maintain evaluation infrastructure to systematically track model safety performance across releases.

Perks and Benefits

  • Work at a pioneering AI lab with interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI for global challenges and public benefit.
  • Opportunities to collaborate with research programs worldwide and publish in the wider research community.
  • Varied learning opportunities and career pathways within a large global organization.
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