Senior Research Scientist, Google Research

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity incentives

Benefits package

Job summary

Google Research is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to drive bold research initiatives in Gemini and related areas in Mountain View. You will design experiments, prototype architectures, and evaluate large language model capabilities, collaborating with teams across Google.

You will publish findings, guide junior researchers, and contribute to the advancement of information retrieval, NLP, and AI systems while delivering tangible results for real-world products and platforms.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

LLM training

Leading research

Publications

Machine learning

Education

PhD in Computer Science

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• 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 scientific publication submission(s) for conferences, journals, or public repositories (such as CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

• 2 years of professional software development experience.
• 1 years of experience leading research projects in a professional or industrial setting.
• Proven track record of impactful research, demonstrated by first-author publications at conferences or recognized contributions to the field.

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.

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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