AGI Safety & Alignment Research Engineer

Google DeepMind; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind’s AGI Safety and Alignment Team (ASAT) seeks researchers and engineers to advance alignment techniques for frontier models. You will contribute to safety research, build robust control systems, and collaborate with product teams to ensure safe and effective deployment across platforms.

The team focuses on misalignment sources, safety frameworks, and evaluating risk with executives, shaping research that reduces existential AI risks while enabling safe innovations for billions of

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related Software Engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in software development, ML engineering, or ML research.
• Experience working with research teams.

Responsibilities

• Research new alignment methods, studying alignment failures, and applying AGI-scalable alignment techniques to frontier models.
• Develop adversarially robust AGI control systems and implement them in production.
• Research interpretability techniques to understand what AI systems are ‘thinking’.
• Work with product teams to ensure that our research is correctly adopted.

Skills

Software development.

Research teamwork

Applied ML research

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google DeepMind’s AGI Safety and Alignment Team (ASAT) seeks researchers and engineers to advance alignment techniques for frontier models. You will contribute to safety research, build robust control systems, and collaborate with product teams to ensure safe and effective deployment across platforms.

The team focuses on misalignment sources, safety frameworks, and evaluating risk with executives, shaping research that reduces existential AI risks while enabling safe innovations for billions of