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Research Strategist, Emerging Impacts Team, DeepMind

Google$295K — $329K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in AI ethics and safety, preferably in governance, policy, legal, or research roles.
  • Demonstrated ability to assess ethical and societal impacts of technology development.
  • Master's degree is a plus.
  • Experience with AI governance in public/private institutions and technical AI models is beneficial.
  • Proven skills in synthesizing complex material for diverse audiences, including executives.

Responsibilities

  • Support the responsibility and safety council with project assessments and executive presentations.
  • Develop and document best practices in collaboration with internal and external experts.
  • Design and facilitate workshops and consultations on ethics and safety topics.
  • Collaborate with safety communities to refine policy frameworks and monitor impacts.
  • Lead ethics and safety reviews, engaging with model teams on societal implications.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance and wellness programs.
  • Generous paid time off and holidays.
  • Retirement plan options with company match.
  • Equity options as part of compensation package.
  • Flexible working location options available.
Full Job Description
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Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in AI ethics and safety within a governance, policy, legal, or research role.
  • Experience leading end-to-end assessments of ethical and societal questions related to technology development, balancing risks and benefits across various applications.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree.
  • Experience working with AI governance processes within a public or private institution.
  • Experience with technical AI models and the broader ecosystem, synthesizing material into accessible formats, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams, and executive stakeholder management.
  • Experience focusing on technology/AI ethics and safety, and distilling impact analysis into insights.
  • Experience in product management, legal analysis, or other related fields.
  • Experience communicating concepts to a range of collaborators, both in writing and executive presentations.


About the job

As an Emerging Impacts Manager, you will deliver tangible, grounded, and forward-looking intelligence for teams across DeepMind. Ultimately, you will advance our mission to develop Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) responsibly for the greater good of humanity.

In this role, you will work with technical and operational teams at DeepMind to consider the potential downstream impacts of DeepMind's research and its applications. You will ensure that our work is conducted in line with ethics and safety best practices, helping DeepMind to progress towards its mission. You will build on your technical knowledge of AI models across various domains to assess their safety performance and real-world impact, sharing analysis to advise various DeepMind stakeholders, including our responsibility and safety council.

We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $295000 - $329000 (USD) 25% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Support the responsibility and safety council by frequently presenting project assessments and communicating with executive stakeholders.
  • Develop and document best practices for DeepMind projects by working with internal experts and external organizations.
  • Design and run engagement models, such as workshops and external expert consultations, to address ethics and safety issues and identify new research areas.
  • Collaborate closely with DeepMind safety communities and broader teams to inform model policy, prepare for emerging AI capabilities, and refine assessment frameworks through monitoring real-world impact.
  • Lead ethics and safety reviews of projects and engage early with model teams to assess downstream societal implications and navigate governance considerations.


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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