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Research Scientist, Gemini Safety and Behavior, DeepMind

Google· DeepMind
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Remote$207k - $300kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Research Scientist/Engineer role in DeepMind's Alignment and Reliability division focused on engineering novel heuristic and statistical mechanisms to elevate user-facing architectures and advance safety, ethics, and alignment of machine intelligence across Google surfaces.

Responsibilities

  • Drive innovation and understanding of safety and security jailbreaks, owning the problem and delivering mitigations which can be deployed at scale in partnership with product areas.
  • Develop red and blue teaming methods for frontier GenAI models spanning text-to-text, multimodal, and agentic capabilities, delivering actionable insights and solutions.
  • Explore data, reasoning and algorithmic solutions to make sure Gemini Models are safe, maximally helpful, and work for everyone.
  • Improve Gemini’s adversarial with a focus on high-stakes abuse risks in agentic settings.
  • Develop and execute experimental plans to address known gaps, or construct entirely new capabilities.

Qualifications

  • PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience in Large Language Model safety or security.
  • Experience in developing and leveraging agentic workflows around safety, behavior, and alignment.
  • Experience with synthetic data generation pipelines, building evaluations and mitigations for non-verifiable tasks using methods such as LLM-as-a-judge, rubric-based rewards, etc.
  • Experience taking research from concept to product.
  • Experience with collaborating or leading an applied research project.
  • Strong experimental taste with good judgment regarding baselines, ablations, and what is worth testing.
  • Track record of publications at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML.

Skills

Required:PhD or equivalent practical experience in CS/related fieldLarge Language Model safety or security
Nice to have:Agentic safety workflows

Benefits

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Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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