Google

Head of Research, Professional Intelligence, DeepMind

Google • $262K — $364K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science or related quantitative field, or equivalent experience.
  • 10 years of applied NLP research and production experience, including LLM fine-tuning or RL.
  • 4 years of experience in leadership roles, mentoring technical teams.
  • Prefer experience in startup environments focusing on rapid iteration.
  • Experience with ML model deployment and production systems.
  • Successful history of building AI solutions for specific industries, backed by significant publications or open source work.
  • Demonstrated ability to produce maintainable, production-grade Python code.

Responsibilities

  • Act autonomously to identify challenges, propose solutions, and implement changes.
  • Lead and mentor a team of research scientists and machine learning engineers.
  • Direct research agendas in ambiguous areas while managing project workloads.
  • Develop benchmark datasets and evaluation metrics for machine learning models.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product management, and legal experts to bring research findings to commercial partners.

Benefits

  • Equity and performance bonuses available.
  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.
  • Access to professional development opportunities.
  • Flexible working conditions including remote options.
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Applied Statistics, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in applied NLP research and productionization, including experience with advanced prompting, and LLM fine-tuning or reinforcement learning (RL).
  • 4 years of experience leading technical or research teams and mentoring engineers.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Startup experience iterating fast and exploring multiple strategies to optimize performance.
  • Exposure to production systems that rely on ML models, or experience with model deployment.
  • Significant success with building AI software and systems for specific industries, either as research publications at top PL or ML venues, or as open source artifacts.
  • Track record of delivering high quality solutions to large, complex software problems.
  • Work Independently, committed to safe, transformative AI, and excellent written and verbal communication and strong stakeholder management across all levels.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver clean, maintainable, production-grade code in Python, adhering to sound engineering principles.


About the job

As an organization, Google maintains a portfolio of research projects driven by fundamental research, new product innovation, product contribution and infrastructure goals, while providing individuals and teams the freedom to emphasize specific types of work. As a Research Scientist, you'll setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly, managing deadlines and deliverables while applying the latest theories to develop new and improved products, processes, or technologies. From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more.

As a Research Scientist, you'll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) 25% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Act like an owner; be fearless in diving deep, asking questions, proposing solutions, establishing consensus and then making things happen.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of research scientists and machine learning engineers.
  • Provide direction and focus in areas of high ambiguity while prioritizing team workloads and managing projects to enable rapid iteration on research initiatives.
  • Oversee the development of benchmark datasets and rigorous evaluation suites measuring factual accuracy, citation fidelity, and multi-step reasoning.
  • Partner with engineering, product management, and legal domain experts to deploy research advances to early enterprise partners.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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$40.2 billion
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1998
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