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Head of Research, Professional Intelligence, DeepMind

Google· DeepMind
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Mountain View, CA$262k - $364kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Head of Research role within the Specialized Professional Intelligence team at DeepMind, focused on building domain-specific AI architecture for high-stakes industries, contributing to Gemini model training through evaluations, datasets, and training objectives, and leading research and infrastructure efforts across multiple domains.

Responsibilities

  • Act like an owner; be fearless in diving deep, asking questions, proposing solutions, establishing consensus and then making things happen.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of research scientists and machine learning engineers.
  • Provide direction and focus in areas of high ambiguity while prioritizing team workloads and managing projects to enable rapid iteration on research initiatives.
  • Oversee the development of benchmark datasets and rigorous evaluation suites measuring factual accuracy, citation fidelity, and multi-step reasoning.
  • Partner with engineering, product management, and legal domain experts to deploy research advances to early enterprise partners.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Applied Statistics, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in applied NLP research and productionization, including experience with advanced prompting, and LLM fine-tuning or reinforcement learning (RL).
  • 4 years of experience leading technical or research teams and mentoring engineers.

Skills

Required:Owner mindset and initiativeLeadership and mentorshipResearch design and evaluation

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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