Research Engineer, Reinforcement Learning
Research Engineer, Reinforcement Learning
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Were looking for talented Research Engineers to push forward fundamental research and technology in Artificial Intelligence as part of our interdisciplinary and collaborative Reinforcement Learning team.
About Us
Google DeepMinds RL team is a small team of scientists and engineers led by David Silver. We tackle large scale research challenges in reinforcement learning. We build RL algorithms scale them and deliver high-impact scientific or product impact. Members of the RL team have been instrumental in building DQN AlphaGo Rainbow AlphaZero MuZero AlphaStar AlphaProof and Gemini. Help us build the next big thing!
The Role
As a Research Engineer youll use your technical skills and machine learning knowledge in research projects engineering initiatives and applications of research.
Your work may involve:
- Making research methods run at large-scale compute.
- Performance engineering benchmarking and optimisation.
- Solving key research challenges via designing and running experiments sharing analyses and proposing next steps.
- Bringing engineering expertise into research projects. Sharing your skills and knowledge with other engineers and researchers.
- Designing building and improving infrastructure for research.
- Initiating or pursuing novel research directions.
Our projects span the full range of state-of-the-art machine learning and AI fields including large language models distributed machine learning techniques and much more but with an emphasis on reinforcement learning.
We take a holistic view of peoples backgrounds and do not expect you to be an expert in all areas. We do expect you to proactively and quickly adopt new technologies and systems but we also invest a lot of time in training and helping people to continually learn as part of their role.
The core skills we look for in Research Engineers are:
- Degree in computer science electrical engineering science mathematics or equivalent experience.
- Extensive software engineering experience particularly with Python-based scientific libraries such as JAX PyTorch TensorFlow NumPy.
- Familiarity with machine learning and RL plus the mathematics and statistics knowledge needed to follow relevant research papers (linear algebra calculus etc).
Were also interested in any of:
- Large-scale system design distributed systems.
- Distributed computation for ML especially in the context of accelerators (e.g. sharding multi-host computation).
- C or broader programming experience.
- Data engineering and visualisation.
- Track record of open-source contributions.
- Strong communication skills (via discussion presentation technical and research writing whiteboarding).
- Academic research experience in machine learning publications or research experience in related fields.
At Google DeepMind we value diversity of experience knowledge backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex race religion or belief ethnic or national origin disability age citizenship marital domestic or civil partnership status sexual orientation gender identity pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation please do not hesitate to let us know.
Applications close on Wednesday 4th June at 5pm (GMT)
Employment Type
Full Time
