Research Scientist, Strategic ML & Robust AI

Google DeepMind; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind in London seeks a Research Scientist in Strategic Initiatives to advance robust, trustworthy ML across diverse domains.

You will collaborate with domain experts and ML engineers, applying your broad ML experience to solve strategic problems and report findings clearly.

Join a mission-driven team committed to public benefit, safety, and high-quality research impact through interdisciplinary collaboration.

Qualifications

• PhD in ML or equivalent research/industry experience.
• Experience in scripting languages and pipelining tools.
• Experience in programming.
• Published work in a ML conference on robustness or image or video generation or classification.
• Quantitative experience in maths and statistics.

Responsibilities

• Engage with existing research efforts in the Strategic Initiatives Program to solve key challenges using your broad machine learning experience.
• Collaborate with researchers and machine learning engineers to identify and develop novel machine learning approaches to solve meaningful strategic problems.
• Report and present research findings and developments (including status and results) clearly and efficiently both internally and externally, verbally and in writing.
• Suggest and engage in team collaborations to meet research goals for the wider science programme.

Skills

PhD in ML

Scripting languages

Pipelining tools

Programming

Publications in ML conference

Mathematics & statistics

Robust ML applications

GenAI models

Adversarial robustness

Research impact

Passion for AI

Education

PhD in Machine Learning or equivalent

Tools

None

Job description

Google DeepMind in London seeks a Research Scientist in Strategic Initiatives to advance robust, trustworthy ML across diverse domains.

You will collaborate with domain experts and ML engineers, applying your broad ML experience to solve strategic problems and report findings clearly.

Join a mission-driven team committed to public benefit, safety, and high-quality research impact through interdisciplinary collaboration.