Research Scientist, Gemini Safety · Google DeepMind

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:40:08 GMT
Engineering

Google DeepMind · Zurich, Switzerland · onsite

We're seeking a versatile Research Scientist to join our Gemini Safety team. As a Research Scientist, you will apply and develop data and algorithmic cutting-edge solutions to advance our latest user-facing models. Your work will focus on advancing the safety and fairness behavior of state-of-the-art AI models, driving the development of foundational technology adopted by numerous product areas, including Gemini App, Cloud API, and Search.

Key responsibilities include:

Post-training/instruction tuning state-of-the-art LLMs, focusing on text-to-text, image/video/audio-to-text modalities and agentic capabilities

Exploring data, reasoning, and algorithmic solutions to ensure Gemini Models are safe, maximally helpful, and work for everyone

Improve Gemini's adversarial robustness, with a focus on high-stakes abuse risks

Design and maintain high-quality evaluation protocols to assess model behavior gaps and headroom related to safety and fairness

Develop and execute experimental plans to address known gaps, or construct entirely new capabilities

Drive innovation and enhance understanding of Supervised Fine Tuning and Reinforcement Learning fine-tuning at scale

To succeed as a Research Scientist in the Gemini Safety team, we look for the following skills and experience:

PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Significant LLM post-training experience

Experience in Reward modeling and Reinforcement Learning for LLMs Instruction tuning

Experience with Long-range Reinforcement learning

Experience in areas such as Safety, Fairness, and Alignment

Track record of publications at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML

Experience taking research from concept to product

Experience with collaborating or leading an applied research project

Strong experimental taste: Good judgment regarding baselines, ablations, and what is worth testing

Experience with JAX