Google

Research Engineer, Tech Lead Manager, Frontier and AGI Security, DeepMind

Google$207K — $300K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5 years in cybersecurity (red teaming, vulnerability identification, etc.).
  • 5 years developing agentic tools.
  • 2 years as a people manager.
  • 2 years in software development or engineering (preferred).

Responsibilities

  • Improve adversarial evaluation techniques (auto-red teaming).
  • Enhance out-of-model defenses such as classifiers and introspection probes.
  • Collaborate with safety engineering on adversarial research capabilities.
  • Contribute to advancing Gemini's cyber defense capabilities.
  • Work on real-world problems affecting Gemini releases and users.

Benefits

  • Opportunities to engage in cutting-edge research.
  • Access to a collaborative environment with industry experts.
  • Flexibility in preferred working location.
  • Participation in a dynamic company focused on innovation.
  • Involvement in projects with global research partners.
Full Job Description
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Minimum qualifications:
  • PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in cybersecurity (e.g., red teaming, vulnerability identification, reverse engineering, black-box evaluation, etc.).
  • 5 years of experience developing agentic tools.
  • 2 years of experience as a people manager.

Preferred qualifications:
  • 2 years of experience in software development or engineering.
  • Track record of research or engineering achievements, such as publications in peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
  • Passion for AI technology and all of its possibilities.


About the job

At 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.

From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, engineers work on real-world problems including artificial intelligence, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. But you stay connected to your research roots as an active contributor to the wider research community by partnering with universities and publishing papers.

In this role, you will build solutions that enable us to protect the world from misuse of the next generation of frontier models and help defend against emerging cyber security risks. Capable cybersecurity models, combined with a sophisticated harness, you will present ongoing challenges that require better defenses.

You will apply engineering, ML, RL, and cybersecurity knowledge to make software more secure, building both research prototypes and robust, scalable infrastructure.

You will be a member of the cyberattack safety team, which is currently developing defenses for preventing misuse of our models for cyberattack as well as contributing to increasing Gemini's capabilities for cyber defense.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) 20% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Improve our adversarial evaluation (auto-red teaming) techniques.
  • Drive improvements for out-of-model defenses such as classifiers and introspection probes.
  • Collaborate with safety engineering to develop new capabilities based on adversarial research.
  • Contribute to increasing Gemini's capabilities for cyber defense.
  • Gain an understanding of the path from research to production while working on real world problems. Your work will directly impact Gemini releases and users.


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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