Google

Research Scientist, Google Ads

Google$147K — $210K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience with large language model post-training (e.g., supervised fine-tuning) in an AI lab or organization.
  • Scientific publication submissions in reputable conferences or journals.
  • Preferred: 3 years in frontier AI research on pre-training or post-training teams.
  • Preferred: Experience initiating research agendas and developing generative AI concepts.

Responsibilities

  • Author research papers to disseminate findings and influence the research community.
  • Grow the research landscape across teams by sharing best practices.
  • Develop innovative machine learning techniques to impact Google products.
  • Post-train and finetune LLMs for various applications.
  • Collaborate with researchers from Google and DeepMind.

Benefits

  • Equity options offered as part of the compensation package.
  • Opportunity to share insights and findings with a global research community.
  • Access to cutting-edge resources and support for professional growth and development.
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience working on modern large language model post-training (e.g., supervised fine-tuning, RLHF) or core generative model development in an industry AI lab, research institute, or frontier AI organization.
  • One of more scientific publication submission(s) for conferences, journals, or public repositories (such as CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:
  • 3 years of experience working in frontier AI research labs on pre-training or post-training teams.
  • 1 year of experience owning and initiating research agendas.
  • 1 year of experience with generative AI concepts (e.g., LLMs, diffusion) and development workflows.
  • Experience in large language models or other generative AI tuning and optimization techniques.
  • First author publications in top machine learning conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, COLM).


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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Author research papers to share and generate impact of research results across the team and in the research community.
  • Help in growing research business across teams by sharing research trends and best practices within the community.
  • Develop novel machine learning and large language modeling techniques that influence Google products.
  • Post-train and finetune Large Language Models (LLMs) for large-scale retrieval, pseudo-rater, and other Google Ads applications.
  • Collaborate closely with researchers across Google and DeepMind.


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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156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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