Senior UX Model Designer, Trust and Safety, GeminiApp, DeepMind

DeepMind Technologies Limited; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and disb

Retirement benefits: 401(k) with match

Paid time off: 20 days per year

Sick time: 40 hours/year (69 Seattle)

Maternity Leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Job summary

DeepMind Technologies Limited is seeking a Model UX Designer focused on the quality and safety of the Gemini model’s output. You will build new capabilities for users and help them maximize product value in a rapidly evolving area with a dedicated team.

You will be a systems thinker with strong content strategy, UX design, and problem-solving skills, creating guidelines, rubrics, and evaluations for LLMs while collaborating with product, engineering, research, and data science to shape strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in conversation design and content design for conversational AI/LLMs.
• Portfolio highlighting content strategies and longer-form writing samples.

Responsibilities

• Develop system instructions and prototyping strategies to ensure safe, high-quality model outputs.
• Diagnose content quality issues and run qualitative assessments to improve user experiences.
• Create guidelines and standards to guide reviewers and engineers.

Skills

Conversation design

Portfolio writing samples

Content strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in English/Communications/Journaling/UX

Tools

LLM tuning

AI prototyping

Job description

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degreein English, Communications, Journalism, Technical Writing, UX, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Linguistics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in conversation design, content design, with equivalent experience designing for conversational AI/LLMs.
• Portfolio highlighting content strategies and longer-form writing samples.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working with policy and regulatory considerations to design safe and trustworthy AI-driven user experiences.
• Experience in vibe-coding and developing AI-powered prototypes.
• Experience training and tuning large language models or other generative AI technologies.
• Experience gathering and working with data to identify loss patterns and create actionable insights.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to articulate positions, and challenge partners with new product design thinking.

About the job

As a Model UX Designer focused on the quality and safety of the Gemini model’s output, you will build new capabilities for users and help them get the best out of the product. You will work in a rapidly evolving, exciting area with a dedicated and passionate team.

In this role, you will be a systems thinker with strong skills in content strategy, UX design, and problem-solving, anchored by a passion for the craft of writing. You will have experience developing guidelines, exemplary content, evaluations, and rubrics for LLMs, as well as writing and editing in a fast-paced, agile environment. Leveraging complex cross-functional partnerships, you will work with product, engineering, research, and data science to articulate and guide product strategy.

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.

Responsibilities

• Apply deep understanding of model capabilities to develop system instructions and prototyping strategies, ensuring the delivery of consistently high-quality, safe, and helpful model outputs.
• Diagnoze content quality issues and Initiate qualitative assessments of model performance, applying mastery of the eval process to develop strategies for continuous quality hillclimbing to improve experiences across product areas.
• Develop strategies for improving model response quality, write instructions, guidelines, and standards to guide the work of reviewers and engineers.
• Partner with AI product designers to craft leading-edge multimodal solutions, ensuring model responses and UI components work in concert to deliver cohesive, high quality experiences.
• Stay current on the latest design trends and technologies, in consumer technology, generative AI and natural language processing, and leverage this knowledge to innovate.

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