Google

Research Scientist, Earth AI

Google • $174K — $252K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, Geography, Epidemiology, or a related quantitative field.
  • 2 years leading a research agenda.
  • Experience with model development and deployment on High Performance Computing hardware using frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or JAX.
  • Scientific publication submission(s) to conferences or journals such as CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS.

Responsibilities

  • Author research papers to disseminate impactful findings.
  • Expand research business by sharing trends and best practices.
  • Drive project work by defining data structure, framework, design, and evaluation metrics.
  • Identify emerging research areas through collaboration with internal and external partners.
  • Pinpoint gaps in existing technology and engage stakeholders to find solutions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance.
  • Generous paid time off and holidays.
  • Retirement savings plan with match.
  • Flexible work hours and remote work options.
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, Geography, Epidemiology, or a related quantitative field.
  • 2 years of experience leading a research agenda.
  • Experience in developing and deploying models using the frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, or JAX) specifically on High Performance Computing hardware.
  • One or more scientific publication submission(s) for conferences, journals, or public repositories (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR).

Preferred qualifications:
  • 2 years of coding experience.
  • 1 year of experience leading research efforts and influencing other researchers.
  • Research experience in earth science, epidemiology, or public health.


About the job

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.

Earth AI is a family of geospatial foundation models, datasets, and Gemini-powered agents for understanding and predicting planetary shifts. Our remote sensing and population architectures are licensed commercially, power features across company ecosystems, and are used by enterprises in health, advertising, and site planning. These tools help responders anticipate where an outbreak will spread next and identify lagging vaccination coverage.

Google Research is building the next generation of intelligent systems for all Google products. To achieve this, we're working on projects that utilize the latest computer science techniques developed by skilled software developers and research scientists. Google Research teams collaborate closely with other teams across Google, maintaining the flexibility and versatility required to adapt new projects and foci that meet the demands of the world's fast-paced business needs.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Author research papers to share and generate impact of research results across function and in the research community.
  • Help in growing research business by sharing research trends and best practices within the community.
  • Drive project work by defining the data structure, framework, design, and evaluation metrics for research solution development and implementation. Identify timelines and obtain resources needed.
  • Identify new and upcoming research areas by interacting with potential external and internal collaborators. Help in developing long-term research strategy and plans to expand the impact of Google research.
  • Identify defined problems/gaps in existing technology and engage stakeholders and leaders to address them.


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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