Frontier & AGI Security Engineer, Tech Lead Manager

Google LLC; San Francisco, Mountain View (CA, CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind in San Francisco, CA, is seeking a Research Engineer, Tech Lead Manager for the Frontier and AGI Security teams. You will guide researchers and engineers, shape experimental design, and help deploy defensive capabilities for next-generation models.

The role emphasizes cybersecurity, adversarial evaluation, and collaboration with safety engineering to advance Gemini’s defenses, while staying connected to research through publications and partnerships.

Qualifications

• PhD in CS or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of cybersecurity experience (red teaming, vulnerability ID, etc.).
• 5 years of experience developing agentic tools and systems.
• 2 years of people management experience.

Responsibilities

• Improve our adversarial evaluation (auto-red teaming) techniques.
• Drive improvements for out-of-model defenses (classifiers and probes).
• Collaborate with safety engineering to develop new capabilities based on adversarial research.
• Contribute to Gemini cybersecurity capabilities.
• Understand the path from research to production and impact Gemini releases.

Skills

Cybersecurity experience

People management

Research experience

Agentic tools development

Education

PhD in CS or related field

Tools

Agentic tools

Job description

Google DeepMind in San Francisco, CA, is seeking a Research Engineer, Tech Lead Manager for the Frontier and AGI Security teams. You will guide researchers and engineers, shape experimental design, and help deploy defensive capabilities for next-generation models.

The role emphasizes cybersecurity, adversarial evaluation, and collaboration with safety engineering to advance Gemini’s defenses, while staying connected to research through publications and partnerships.