Research Scientist, AI for Secure Code
Research Scientist, AI for Secure Code
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$ 166000 - 244000
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Job Description
This role is ideally located in Mountain View CA. For the right candidate there may be an option to work from either New York City NY San Francisco CA or London UK.
Snapshot
Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanitys most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind were a team of scientists engineers machine learning experts and more working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery and collaborate with others on critical challenges ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.
About Us
AIs cyberattack capability is increasing rapidly; recently there has been a surge in the number of zero-day exploits found by AI in well-tested software. However fixing or hardening code often lags behind by months with human experts struggling to keep up with the long log of vulnerability reports. The danger is exacerbated by open-source models who are becoming more capable at cyberattack and are more readily available by malicious actors. The goal of our project is to leverage AI for the defense: (1) automatically fix discovered vulnerabilities and (2) harden code either through checked annotations or through transformations to safer coding practices in the same language.
Our team collaborates closely with a wide variety of teams across Google/Alphabet leveraging Google DeepMinds expertise to deploy advanced machine learning algorithms with the goal of hardening code for Alphabet systems and beyond.
The Role
You will be developing an agent that leverages powerful AI models compilers runtimes static/dynamic analyzers and formal verification tools to harden code against a wide range of vulnerabilities across different programming languages and frameworks in collaboration with experts across these areas. As a part of the project
- You will be rapid-prototyping initial concepts and designing and running experiments to achieve our goals.
- Your work will be influential both in the research community and also in products that promise to have tremendous impact.
About You
We seek out individuals who thrive in ambiguity and who are willing to help out with whatever moves prototypes forward. We regularly need to invent novel solutions to problems and at times change course if our ideas dont work out so flexibility and adaptability to work is a must.
In order to set you up for success as a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind we look for the following skills and experience:
- MSc or PhD/DPhil degree in Computer Science (or relevant majors) with emphasis on ML or equivalent practical experience.
- Proven knowledge and experience of C/C and Python.
- Strong hands-on experience with LLMs (e.g. (RL) fine-tuning inference prompting agent development).
- Experience designing and developing evaluation benchmarks and implementing scalable evaluation pipelines.
- Proven experience with prominent ML frameworks and tools.
- Hands-on experience with AI-based code generation or editing tools.
In addition the following would be an advantage:
- Experience with developer tools (compilers runtimes dynamic/static analyzers web frameworks ... ).
- Significant success with project(s) building AI tools for code either as research publications at top PL/systems/AI venues as an artifact developed at a company or as open source artifact(s)
- Familiarity with well-known code security practices.
- Independent self-starter attitude
- Passion for the mission above
The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $166000 - $244000 bonus equity benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.
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.
Employment Type
Full Time
