Frontier AI Safety & Research Engineering Lead

Google LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind in London is seeking a Research Engineering Manager to lead a team of Research and Software Engineers within the Responsible Frontier AI Research group. You will build engineering foundations for the Responsibility portfolio, including automated platforms to discover, measure, and mitigate jailbreaks, and red-teaming tools used by subject-matter experts.

As a strategic leader, you will balance research experiments with robust, scalable infrastructure, hire and develop top talent,

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams on AI safety, security, or responsible AI research.
• Track record in research or engineering achievements (publications, open-source, benchmarks).

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate priorities for multiple workstreams that support the broader responsibility organization's goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams, and move engineering capacity between research projects as priorities change.
• Set clear expectations with individuals, including tech leads, based on their level and role. Meet regularly to discuss performance and development, provide feedback and coaching, and hire and grow a high-performing team.
• Develop the long-term technical goal and roadmap within, and often beyond, the scope of your teams, covering systems such as evaluation pipelines, red-teaming tools, autoraters, and mitigation training pipelines.
• Oversee system designs and review code to solve ambiguous problems. Set best practices for code quality, scalability, reliability, and secure handling of sensitive data.
• Partner with Research Scientists, Subject-Matter Experts, and Product, Program, Policy, and Trust and Safety teams to turn research into evaluations and mitigations that inform model launch decisions.

Skills

AI safety leadership

Red teaming & jailbreak discovery

Frontier model evaluation

Team building & hiring

Research-to-implementation bridge

Education

Master's or PhD in Engineering/CS with AI focus

Job description

Google DeepMind in London is seeking a Research Engineering Manager to lead a team of Research and Software Engineers within the Responsible Frontier AI Research group. You will build engineering foundations for the Responsibility portfolio, including automated platforms to discover, measure, and mitigate jailbreaks, and red-teaming tools used by subject-matter experts.

As a strategic leader, you will balance research experiments with robust, scalable infrastructure, hire and develop top talent,