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

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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA; Mountain View, CA; New York, NY)$207k - $300kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Research Engineer role focused on frontier and AGI security within DeepMind, embedded in a cyberattack safety team to develop defenses for misuse of frontier models and strengthen cyber defense for Gemini releases; combines research with production-oriented engineering across adversarial evaluation, defense capabilities, and safety collaboration.

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.

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.

Skills

Required:PhD or equivalent practical experience in CS or related fieldCybersecurityAgentic tools developmentPeople management

Benefits

  • Learn more about benefits at Google (link provided in description)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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