Senior Research Scientist, AI Safety and Security
Hybrid (Singapore)Full-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Senior Research Scientist role focused on proactive threat mitigation, adversarial machine learning, and agentic security within Google’s trustworthy AI efforts. Research-focused position with collaboration across regional engineering hubs, core product teams, and academic partners to translate theory into production-ready solutions.
Responsibilities
- Drive foundational machine learning research in model robustness, continual learning, interpretability, and multiobjective optimization to advance trustworthy AI.
- Design and develop rigorous evaluation protocols, scenario-based benchmarks, and stress-testing methodologies to assess frontier AI capabilities and multi-agent consensus.
- Curate advanced datasets and conduct fine-tuning or optimization experiments to enhance model resilience against emerging threats and ensure adherence to safety constraints.
- Collaborate extensively with regional engineering hubs, core product teams, and academic partners to transition theoretical proofs-of-concept into robust production solutions.
- Publish groundbreaking research in machine learning venues and actively participate in academic and industry research communities.
Qualifications
- PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience leading a research agenda.
- Experience in machine learning, adversarial machine learning or evaluating frontier AI systems, including supervised learning, unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning, ML interpretability, adversarial robustness, ML safety, generative models, agentic AI, multi-object optimization.
- One or more scientific publication submissions for conferences, journals, or public repositories (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR).
Skills
Required:Machine learningAdversarial machine learningResearch dissemination
Nice to have:PythonSecurity mindset for AI
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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