AI Safety Research Engineer — Chem/Bio/Nuclear Safeguards

Google LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

DeepMind's Responsible Frontier AI Research team seeks a Research Engineer in Mountain View to advance safeguards for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive AI systems. You will write production-grade code, run evaluations, and collaborate with biologists, chemists, and physicists to prevent misuse while enabling scientific progress.

Responsibilities include designing safeguards, conducting rigorous evaluations, and coordinating with experts to transform judgments into

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a Management, Scientific, Technical, or Engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience writing code in a shared, version-controlled codebase with other contributors, which may include research software.
• 3 years of experience training, fine-tuning, or evaluating machine learning models.

Responsibilities

• Build novel safeguards and attack them with automated and manual red teaming, while measuring their cost to legitimate scientific research.
• Design, build and run evaluations for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives risk in frontier models, including agentic systems risk.
• Lead the reliability of key systems, including safeguards and incident response.
• Partner with leading scientific experts to turn their judgment into datasets and automated graders, managing sensitive data under strict security controls.

Skills

Coding in shared codebase

ML model training

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Scientific/Management field

Job description

DeepMind's Responsible Frontier AI Research team seeks a Research Engineer in Mountain View to advance safeguards for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive AI systems. You will write production-grade code, run evaluations, and collaborate with biologists, chemists, and physicists to prevent misuse while enabling scientific progress.

Responsibilities include designing safeguards, conducting rigorous evaluations, and coordinating with experts to transform judgments into