Frontier AI Safety Research Engineer

Google LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind in London invites applications for a Share Research Engineer, Responsible Frontier AI Research. The role focuses on AI safety and responsible research, building scalable systems and evaluating model safety across releases.

Ideal candidates have advanced degrees and hands-on Python/C++ experience, with a track record in ML safety and evaluation frameworks. You will work across teams to advance responsible AI innovations at Google DeepMind.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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 including 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.

Skills

AI safety

Responsible AI research

Evaluation frameworks

Pipelines for ML models

Education

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related

Focus on Machine Learning

Tools

Python

C++

Job description

Google DeepMind in London invites applications for a Share Research Engineer, Responsible Frontier AI Research. The role focuses on AI safety and responsible research, building scalable systems and evaluating model safety across releases.

Ideal candidates have advanced degrees and hands-on Python/C++ experience, with a track record in ML safety and evaluation frameworks. You will work across teams to advance responsible AI innovations at Google DeepMind.