Frontier Safety Research Engineer: AI Defense & Mitigations

DeepMind Technologies Limited; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

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Job summary

DeepMind Technologies Limited is seeking a research engineer to join the Frontier Safety Mitigation team within the Gemini Safety group. The role focuses on building end-to-end defenses for frontier models, advancing safety mitigations while enabling beneficial use of AI at scale.

You will work on new research questions, implement scalable technical solutions, and contribute to DeepMind's Frontier Safety Framework commitments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related field (preferred).
• Experience in LLM development, fine-tuning, or safety evaluation methodologies (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Build advanced classifiers and data pipelines to detect misuse, owning the end-to-end process from automated evaluation to rapid model iteration.
• Build cross-context monitoring systems to detect coordinated harms, developing novel signal aggregation methods across disparate user sessions to identify large-scale attack vectors.
• Implement data-driven, semi-automated account-level response systems to detect, track, and apply strikes against persistent malicious actors using rich signals from production traffic.
• Evaluate and secure agentic AI systems by developing threat models, creating testing environments, and deploying robust mitigations against frontier-level agentic hacking and long-horizon attacks.
• Advance research in automated red-teaming and adversarial robustness, leveraging multi-turn/agentic attacks to systematically test for and uncover misuse vulnerabilities.

Skills

Software development experience

Testing and maintenance

Software design and architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Master’s or PhD in CS (preferred)

Job description

DeepMind Technologies Limited is seeking a research engineer to join the Frontier Safety Mitigation team within the Gemini Safety group. The role focuses on building end-to-end defenses for frontier models, advancing safety mitigations while enabling beneficial use of AI at scale.

You will work on new research questions, implement scalable technical solutions, and contribute to DeepMind's Frontier Safety Framework commitments.