Research Engineer: LLM/IR, Equity Options

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

Job summary

Google DeepMind is seeking a research-focused Software Engineer to work across large-scale AI projects and deploy ideas rapidly within product contexts. You will collaborate with internal teams globally to drive experiments, architecture design, and practical implementations in AI and data processing.

The role emphasizes research roots, partnerships with universities, and publishing papers, with opportunities to influence both research and product directions at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI/ML, or related field.
• 3 years of ML experience focused on LLMs or IR.
• 3 years of software engineering experience in Python, C++, JAX, or PyTorch with multi-stage training pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Uncover strategic opportunities at the intersection of Gemini, Search, factuality, continual learning, deep research, and domain internalization.
• Analyze models and model-driven products beyond current leaderboards and create new evaluation methods.
• Use empirical findings to drive interventions and modeling innovations to improve models across surfaces.
• Collaborate with product teams to scale research into production environments, optimizing quality and efficiency.

Skills

LLMs

Information Retrieval

Python

C++

JAX

PyTorch

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related field

Job description

Google DeepMind is seeking a research-focused Software Engineer to work across large-scale AI projects and deploy ideas rapidly within product contexts. You will collaborate with internal teams globally to drive experiments, architecture design, and practical implementations in AI and data processing.

The role emphasizes research roots, partnerships with universities, and publishing papers, with opportunities to influence both research and product directions at scale.