Senior Research Scientist: Autonomy & Scalable ML Leader

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Staff Research Scientist to lead foundational research in machine learning, uncertainty quantification, and autonomous systems. You will set long-term research agendas, drive experiments, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate breakthroughs into scalable products and infrastructure.

The role emphasizes publishing high-impact work, mentoring teams, and advancing state-of-the-art in computer science across ML, CV, robotics, and data analysis.

Qualifications

• Experience owning outcomes and making decisions in research contexts.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and solve ambiguous problems.
• Demonstrated leadership in setting research directions for large teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead research agendas and deploy scalable algorithms.
• Publish findings in top conferences/journals and contribute to open datasets.
• Collaborate with software engineers and product teams to translate research into systems.
• Drive multi-year research programs and set technical direction.

Skills

Outcome ownership

Decision making

Stakeholder influence

Ambiguity solving

Education

Ph.D. in CS/Robotics/EE/Statistics or related field

Tools

JAX

TensorFlow

Job description

Google is seeking a Senior Staff Research Scientist to lead foundational research in machine learning, uncertainty quantification, and autonomous systems. You will set long-term research agendas, drive experiments, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate breakthroughs into scalable products and infrastructure.

The role emphasizes publishing high-impact work, mentoring teams, and advancing state-of-the-art in computer science across ML, CV, robotics, and data analysis.