Research Engineer, Serving Quality, DeepMind

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

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Job summary

Google DeepMind in Mountain View, CA, USA, is seeking a Research Engineer for Serving Quality to advance data-driven improvements across live experiment setups and user/model behavior analysis.

You will partner with researchers, engineers and operations to drive metrics enhancements and support frontier model development with insights from user signals and experiments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant field.
• Experience with Python or C++.
• Experience with machine learning and statistics.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop metrics to measure model performance and detect anomalies in the serving stack.
• Identify and investigate novel serving or modeling quality issues using large-scale real user data.
• Collaborate across logging, serving, and management to quantify improvements.
• Contribute to reporting, analytics infrastructure, model testing, including replay, evals and dashboards.

Skills

Python

C++

Machine learning

Statistics

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Math/Statistics/ML

Tools

TensorFlow

JAX

Job description

Research Engineer, Serving Quality, DeepMind

DeepMind Mountain View, CA, USA

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Machine Learning, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with Python or C++.
• Experience with machine learning and statistics.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in software engineering and working on large-scale ML projects.
• Experience working on projects from proof-of-concept through to implementation.
• Experience in experiment analysis.
• Experience with TensorFlow or similar ML frameworks (e.g. JAX).
• Experience conducting applied research to improve the quality and training/serving efficiency of large transformer-based models.
• Familiarity with LE and Rasta.

About the job

In this role, you will work cross-functionally with researchers, engineers and operations on live experiment set up, user and model behavior analysis, and metrics improvements to ensure that we have the best quality of data for GenAI model and product developments. This role also works with the modeling teams closely to provide user signals feedback and insights on improving our frontier models.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• Design and develop metrics that measure model performance, and detect anomaly events on serving stack (such looping, leakage and so on).
• Discover novel serving or modeling quality issues, as well as anomaly events through large-scale real user data mining.
• Work cross-functionally on logging, serving, and management to quantify the improvements.
• Contribute to reporting, analytical infrastructure, model testing framework including replay, evals and dashboarding.
• Provide insights to improve our frontier models serving quality and improve user experiences.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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