Research Engineer, Gemini Omni, DeepMind

Google DeepMind; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind is seeking a research-focused Software Engineer to help deploy high-impact AI ideas at scale. You will prototype, curate data, train models, and optimize performance across generative media tasks, collaborating closely with researchers and engineers.

You will work on cutting-edge multimodal understanding, contributing to scalable systems and publishing impactful results with world-class teams, spanning academia and industry.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or equivalent in CS/Math/ML.
• Hands-on experience with ML frameworks and production systems.
• Experience training diffusion models and deploying models.

Responsibilities

• Apply research ideas to real-world problems through prototyping, data collection, training, and deployment.
• Develop Generative Media techniques (image, video, audio).
• Optimize algorithms and models for efficient inference.
• Advance capabilities in Multimodal Understanding.
• Perform model optimization to improve performance and scale.

Skills

TensorFlow

ML frameworks

Industry experience

Diffusion models

Applied research

Education

Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, applied statistics, machine learning

Tools

JAX

PyTorch

Job description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: London, UK; Zürich, Switzerland.

Minimum qualifications:

• Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, applied statistics, machine learning or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience of TensorFlow or ML frameworks (e.g. JAX or PyTorch).
• Experience working in industry, working on projects from proof-of-concept through to implementation.
• Experience with training diffusion models.
• Experience conducting applied research.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in inference optimization.
• Experience with data pipelines.
• Experience with training large-scale models.
• Cross-functional collaboration experience.
• Knowledge of machine learning, statistics, and diffusion model theories.

About the job

At Google, research-focused Software Engineers are embedded throughout the company, allowing them to setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly. Ideas may come from internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, engineers work on real-world problems including artificial intelligence, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. But you stay connected to your research roots as an active contributor to the wider research community by partnering with universities and publishing papers.Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer varied learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.

Responsibilities

• Apply research ideas to high-impact real world problems through prototyping, dataset curation, model training, performance optimization, and deployment.
• Develop cutting-edge techniques in Generative Media (image, video, and audio).
• Optimize algorithms and models for efficient inference.
• Advance capabilities in Multimodal Understanding.
• Perform comprehensive model optimization to enhance performance and scale.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .