Senior Research Scientist, Multimodal AI

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

Job summary

Google Research in Mountain View is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to advance foundation models and multimodal AI, driving experiments from design to deployment. You will lead ambitious projects that push the state of the art and contribute to broad product goals.

You will publish findings, collaborate across teams, and shape research directions while delivering improvements across Google’s products and platforms. Equity and benefits are part of the overall package.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in Python and deep learning frameworks (e.g., JAX, Flax, or Gemma).
• Experience conducting research and development, including experimental design, implementation, and analysis.
• One or more publications submitted to conferences, journals, or public repositories (such as CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of foundation models, language and multimodal technologies and apply them in the product’s context.
• Prototype new (“zero-to-one”) features and partner with teammates to land them in production.
• Improve product quality and cost optimization via novel approaches and generation of novel data sets.
• Collaborate within the team and outside the team.
• Influence product roadmap via quantitative and qualitative analysis.

Skills

Python

Deep learning

Research

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Tools

JAX

Flax

Gemma

Job description

Google Research in Mountain View is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to advance foundation models and multimodal AI, driving experiments from design to deployment. You will lead ambitious projects that push the state of the art and contribute to broad product goals.

You will publish findings, collaborate across teams, and shape research directions while delivering improvements across Google’s products and platforms. Equity and benefits are part of the overall package.