Head of AI Research & Professional Intelligence — Equity

Google LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind is seeking a Head of Research for Professional Intelligence in Mountain View to lead a team delivering domain-specific AI solutions across high-stakes datasets. You will guide research agendas, design scalable architectures, and drive production-ready systems that advance Gemini and related product surfaces.

The role requires a PhD or equivalent experience, 10+ years in applied NLP, and 4+ years of leadership, with strong communication and stakeholder management across levels.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent practical experience in a quantitative field.
• 10 years of applied NLP research and productionization with prompting and RL.
• 4 years leading technical or research teams and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of research scientists and ML engineers.
• Set direction for high-ambiguity research projects and prioritize work.
• Oversee development of benchmarks, datasets, and evaluation suites.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and legal experts to deploy advances.
• Publish findings and contribute to the wider research community.

Skills

NLP research

Prompting

LLM fine-tuning

RL for ML

Team leadership

Education

PhD in CS/Math/Stats/ML

Job description

Google DeepMind is seeking a Head of Research for Professional Intelligence in Mountain View to lead a team delivering domain-specific AI solutions across high-stakes datasets. You will guide research agendas, design scalable architectures, and drive production-ready systems that advance Gemini and related product surfaces.

The role requires a PhD or equivalent experience, 10+ years in applied NLP, and 4+ years of leadership, with strong communication and stakeholder management across levels.