Research Scientist, Gemini Safety · Google DeepMind

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:40:47 GMT
Engineering

Google DeepMind · Mountain View, California, US · onsite
Job Title: Research Scientist, Gemini Safety We're looking for a versatile Research Scientist to join our Gemini Safety team at Google DeepMind. As a Research Scientist, you will be responsible for applying and developing data and algorithmic cutting-edge solutions to advance the safety and fairness behavior of our latest user-facing models. The Gemini Safety team is accountable for the safety and fairness behavior of GDM's latest Gemini models. Our team focuses 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: * 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 About You: * 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, RL/DL, EMNLP, AAAI, UAI * Experience taking research from concept to product * Experience with collaborating or leading an applied research project * Experience with JAX 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.