Lead Threat Modeling for Harmful Manipulation & AI Safety

DeepMind Technologies Limited; New York (NY); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus target (20% of salary)

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google DeepMind is seeking a mission-driven threat intelligence expert to join the Responsible Development and Innovation team. You will develop and maintain threat models, track evolving actors and tactics, and convert the threat landscape into actionable analyses that inform deployment safeguards.

The role spans technical investigations and evaluations that test how frontier AI models interact with users, with insights reported to senior leadership and external partners to shape risk

Qualifications

• PhD degree in Computer Science, Political Science, Psychology, Computational Social Science, a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience performing technical work; for example, OSINT data collection, API scraping, log analysis, and other data analysis.
• Experience studying, tracking, or evaluating the mechanics of human manipulation, persuasion, propaganda, influence operations, social engineering, or a related social phenomena.

Responsibilities

• Refine and maintain Harmful Manipulation threat modeling frameworks to define critical thresholds, and integrate these models into Google’s Frontier Safety Framework risk determination processes to support deployment decision-making.
• Partner cross-functionally to design and implement evaluations identifying Harmful Manipulation-related capabilities and risks, publish on novel methodologies and capabilities insights.
• Collaborate across evaluation and mitigation teams to determine if deployment safeguards are adequate for high-capability models.
• Engage with external research community and stakeholders including governmental entities, national safety institutes, third-party organisations (including the Frontier Model Forum) and external subject matter experts.
• Monitor the external competitor landscape, emerging dual-use methodologies and broader frontier AI domain.

Skills

OSINT data collection

API scraping

Log analysis

Threat modeling

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google DeepMind is seeking a mission-driven threat intelligence expert to join the Responsible Development and Innovation team. You will develop and maintain threat models, track evolving actors and tactics, and convert the threat landscape into actionable analyses that inform deployment safeguards.

The role spans technical investigations and evaluations that test how frontier AI models interact with users, with insights reported to senior leadership and external partners to shape risk