AGI Safety & Alignment Research Engineer

Google DeepMind; New York (NY); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google DeepMind is seeking a research-focused Software Engineer to be embedded across teams, enabling large-scale tests and rapid prototyping of ideas. You will engage with frontier AI safety work, publish findings with academic partners, and contribute to building robust models and alignment techniques.

The role blends software development with safety research across AGI and alignment initiatives, with opportunities to collaborate with researchers and product teams on responsible AI advances.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related software 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

ML engineering

ML research

Research collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google DeepMind is seeking a research-focused Software Engineer to be embedded across teams, enabling large-scale tests and rapid prototyping of ideas. You will engage with frontier AI safety work, publish findings with academic partners, and contribute to building robust models and alignment techniques.

The role blends software development with safety research across AGI and alignment initiatives, with opportunities to collaborate with researchers and product teams on responsible AI advances.