Research EngineerScientist, AI Control
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Job Location:
Mountain View, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 166000 - 244000
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Mountain View CA is the preferred location but we are open to New York City and London for exceptional candidates.
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
As part of the Security & Privacy Research Team at Google DeepMind you will play a key role in researching designing and building the technology that will help us work with and control advanced AI systems.
The Role
Agents are increasingly used to handle long-horizon tasks. We already see this in coding where advances are moving us from simple code autocomplete to advanced AI systems that write code build test and debug all on their own. As we get closer to AGI we need guarantees that help control and guide these agents especially in scenarios where the agents capabilities may exceed those of the systems tasked with monitoring it. You will:
- Go beyond traditional security assumptions to model how a highly capable agent could misuse its access exfiltrate data or establish a rogue deployment within complex production environments.
- Develop techniques for monitoring advanced agents. How can we detect emergent deception collusion or obscured long-term plans before they result in harmful actions
- Create novel evaluation methodologies and benchmarks to measure the effectiveness of different control strategies against highly capable simulated adversaries.
Key responsibilities:
- Identify and formalize unsolved research problems in AI control focusing on the unique challenges posed by agents that may exceed human oversight capabilities.
- Design prototype and evaluate novel control systems and monitoring techniques. This includes theoretical work large-scale experiments and building proof-of-concept systems.
- Collaborate closely with teams working on Gemini and agent infrastructure to understand emergent risks and integrate control mechanisms directly into the systems where they are most needed.
- Publish groundbreaking research and contribute to the broader academic and policy conversation on long-term AI safety and control.
About You
We are looking for a creative and rigorous researcher who is passionate about tackling the foundational safety challenges of advanced AI.
In order to set you up for success as a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind we look for the following skills and experience:
- Ph.D. in Computer Science or related quantitative field or B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or related quantitative field with 5 years of relevant experience.
- Demonstrated research or product expertise in AI safety AI alignment or a related security field.
In addition the following would be an advantage:
- Experience with adversarial research red-teaming or vulnerability research particularly in complex software or AI/ML systems.
- Strong software engineering skills and experience with ML frameworks like JAX PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Familiarity with concepts from game theory or mechanism design problems as they apply to AI.
- A track record of landing research impact within multi-team collaborative environments.
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.
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Machine Learning
- Python
- AI
- Bioinformatics
- C/C++
- R
- Biochemistry
- Research Experience
- Natural Language Processing
- Deep Learning
- Molecular Biology
About Company
Artificial intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. We research and build safe artificial intelligence systems. We're committed to solving intelligence, to advance science and benefit humanity.
