Research Scientist, Google Research

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

Job summary

Google Research in Mountain View, CA seeks a Share Research Scientist to drive ambitious research on large language models and related technologies. You will design experiments, build prototypes, and guide a team to publish impactful results.

This role emphasizes leading research agendas, collaborating with partners, and contributing to Gemini capabilities and foundational models, with opportunities to influence product direction.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience leading a research agenda.
• Experience with LLM training and generative models.
• One or more publications submissions for conferences, journals, or public repositories (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR).

Responsibilities

• Scope and drive research efforts to improve Gemini capabilities, including multi-turn and factuality.
• Review the latest literature to guide research directions.
• Curate and generate data to evaluate Gemini capabilities.
• Design and implement evaluation strategies (human and automated).
• Design and conduct supervised fine-tuning and RL experiments to improve model performance.

Skills

Coding experience

Research leadership

Publications

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

LLM training

Generative models

Job description

Share Research Scientist, Google Research

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Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

Share Research Scientist, Google Research

• PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience leading a research agenda.
• Experience with LLM training and generative models.
• One of more scientific publication submission(s) for conferences, journals, or public repositories (such as CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

• 2 years of coding experience.
• 1 year of experience leading research efforts and influencing other researchers.

About the job

As an organization, Google maintains a portfolio of research projects driven by fundamental research, new product innovation, product contribution and infrastructure goals, while providing individuals and teams the freedom to emphasize specific types of work. As a Research Scientist, you'll setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly, managing deadlines and deliverables while applying the latest theories to develop new and improved products, processes, or technologies. From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more.

As a Research Scientist, you'll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

This team measures and improves key capabilities like multi-turn, factuality, and search for Gemini, working at the frontier of post-training for large foundational models. Modern LLMs are required to support long interactions with users, such as chat and informational dialogs, code development, image editing and video sessions. In this role, you will research new approaches for analyzing, evaluating and training LLMs to enhance their multi-turn capabilities.Google Research is building the next generation of intelligent systems for all Google products. To achieve this, we’re working on projects that utilize the latest computer science techniques developed by skilled software developers and research scientists. Google Research teams collaborate closely with other teams across Google, maintaining the flexibility and versatility required to adapt new projects and foci that meet the demands of the world's fast-paced business needs. 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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• Scope and drive research efforts to improve complex frontier Gemini capabilities, such as multi-turn, factuality and tool-use.
• Review the latest literature to guide research and experimental directions.
• Curate and generate data to evaluate and improve Gemini capabilities.
• Design and implement both human and automated evaluation strategies.
• Design and conduct supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning experiments to improve the performance of Gemini capabilities such as multi-turn and factuality.

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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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