Research Engineer, Chemical, Biological and Nuclear AI Safety, DeepMind
Google· DeepMind
Mountain View, CA, USA$174k - $252kFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Research Engineer role in Google DeepMind's Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives safety program (CBRNE AI Safety) focused on applied research, production code, and safeguards for frontier models, with strict data handling and on-call responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Build novel safeguards and attack them with automated and manual red teaming, while measuring their cost to legitimate scientific research.
- Design, build and run evaluations for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives risk in frontier models, including agentic systems risk.
- Lead the reliability of key systems, including safeguards and incident response.
- Partner with leading scientific experts to turn their judgment into datasets and automated graders, managing sensitive data under strict security controls.
- Communicate results, including uncertainty and negative findings, to technical staff and leadership.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a Management, Scientific, Technical, or Engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience writing code in a shared, version-controlled codebase with other contributors, which may include research software.
- 3 years of experience training, fine-tuning, or evaluating machine learning models.
Skills
Required:Programming in a shared codebaseMachine learning model training/evaluation
Benefits
- Learn more about benefits at Google (link provided in job description)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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