Google DeepMind
Research Engineer, Frontier Safety Risk Assessment, DeepMind
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Research Engineer, Frontier Safety Risk Assessment, DeepMind
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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Francisco, CA, USA; London, UK; New York, NY, USA.Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 5 years of experience in deep learning or with large foundation models. Experience designing and implementing AI experiments and systems using Python. Experience identifying, assessing, or mitigating advanced AI model risks in production systems. Experience communicating technical concepts or research insights to technical stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications:
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field. Experience in areas such as frontier risk assessment or mitigations, AI safety, and alignment. Experience collaborating on or leading applied research projects. Engineering experience with Large Language Model (LLM) training and inference. A track record of publications at venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, RL/DL workshops, EMNLP, AAAI, or UAI.
About the jobAt Google, research-focused Software Engineers are embedded throughout the company, allowing them to setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly. Ideas may come from internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.
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Drive novel research to measure, assess, and prioritize risks from frontier AI models. Identify and analyze emerging risk pathways in areas including loss of control, Machine Learning (ML) Research and Development (R&D), cybersecurity, and harmful manipulation. Design and develop new methods for measuring pre-mitigation and post-mitigation risk, incorporating forecasting and scenario planning. Implement research findings and build technical solutions using Python, interacting with various codebases. Prioritize research and engineering efforts within pragmatic constraints of compute and time to maximize value of information.
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