Research Scientist, Autonomous Agents
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We are looking for Research Scientists to join the Autonomous Agents team and produce research on the development of next-generation technologies. These technologies will power increasingly open-ended autonomous agents that strive to assist support and supplement humans in their daily personal and professional lives.
About Us
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.
The Role
Within the team Research Scientists are encouraged to lead and support a research agenda aimed at producingpractically applicable technological advances in the ability of increasingly autonomous agents to assist support and empower humans.
The expectation is that Research Scientists will conduct novel research according to ambitious long-term agendas while maintaining a strong focus on methods and tools offering practical benefits in the short term as a form of pragmatic grounding. Central to this process is the idea that rapid iteration and refinement of solutions catering to real-world use cases provide a strong basis for better understanding the research boundary in a fast-paced field.
Key responsibilities:
Participate in the ideation and development of new use cases and desired capabilities for human-oriented agents of any form advised by the current state of research.
Partner with research engineers to develop ambitious prototypes pertaining to desired or anticipated agent use cases and design and implement evaluation protocols around these prototypes.
Identify roadblocks and research challengesmotivated by the empirical study of existing methods failures or limitations in use-case evaluationsand develop novel technical or methodological solutions to overcome them.
Identify sources of data design and implement data collection processes (supported by research engineering partners) and conduct human annotation and evaluation campaigns for the production and evaluation of strong baselines for each use case.
Help identify within Google DeepMinds broad portfolio of research projects methods that could be adapted or tested against our evaluations. This includes identifying teams and individuals we could partner with to overcome challenges while providing grounding and evaluation for that collaborators research agenda.
About You
In order to set you up for success as a Research Scientist we look for the following skills and experience:
A PhD in a technical field or equivalent practical experience. This specific role is targeting recent graduates and the ideal candidate will be willing to work closely with one or more senior researchers on established high-value projects.
Hands-on experience with experiment design and analysis including data collection and validation methodology statistical analysis of results and their significance and performing rigorous ablation studies.
Experience in a research domain connected to the production of increasingly autonomous human-oriented agents (e.g. LLM-powered agents RL/IL applications in NLP evaluation design).
A desire to produce the next generation of agentic systems capable of learning from and efficiently adapting to deployment in real-world scenarios.
In addition the following would be an advantage:
- Strong end-to-end system-building and prototyping skills.
Experience with one or more of the following: fine-tuning LLMs running human data collection/annotation campaigns self-play or multi-agent systems.
Experience with open-ended learning RL and frontier methods for training LLMs (RLHF RLAIF multi-turn RL multi-agent interactions reward function design and modelling etc.).
A curiosity about or experience with research topics surrounding personalization memory reasoning self-improvement and safety.
Closing date: Monday 2nd March 2026 at 10:00am GMT
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.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
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.
