Research Engineer, Responsible Frontier AI Research, DeepMind
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What you'll do
- Be able to rapidly prototype and deliver scalable engineering solutions across the Responsibility research portfolio.
- Architect and optimize training and inference pipelines to detect and evaluate harmful manipulation behaviors in frontier language models.
- Develop post-training strategies to mitigate manipulation risks including deceptive persuasion, sycophancy, and covert influence tactics.
- Collaborate with research scientists to translate safety research into robust implementations and present results to cross-functional stakeholders.
- Build and maintain evaluation infrastructure to systematically track model safety performance across releases.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience in Python programming.
- 3 years of experience with ML frameworks such as JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with a focus on machine learning.
- Experience in Python and C++ for high-performance ML library development.
- Experience with harmful manipulation detection, persuasion modeling, deceptive behavior analysis, or AI safety evaluation and mitigation.
- Experience working directly on AI safety, or responsible AI research.
- Experience building evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, or automated testing pipelines for ML models.
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience in Python programming.
- 3 years of experience with ML frameworks such as JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with a focus on machine learning.
- Experience in Python and C++ for high-performance ML library development.
- Experience with harmful manipulation detection, persuasion modeling, deceptive behavior analysis, or AI safety evaluation and mitigation.
- Experience working directly on AI safety, or responsible AI research.
- Experience building evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, or automated testing pipelines for ML models.
About the job
Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At 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.
Responsibilities
- Be able to rapidly prototype and deliver scalable engineering solutions across the Responsibility research portfolio.
- Architect and optimize training and inference pipelines to detect and evaluate harmful manipulation behaviors in frontier language models.
- Develop post-training strategies to mitigate manipulation risks including deceptive persuasion, sycophancy, and covert influence tactics.
- Collaborate with research scientists to translate safety research into robust implementations and present results to cross-functional stakeholders.
- Build and maintain evaluation infrastructure to systematically track model safety performance across releases.
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