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Threat Modeling Lead, Harmful Manipulation, DeepMind

Google· DeepMind
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Remote$207k - $300kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Threat Modeling Lead role within the Responsible Development and Innovation (ReDI) team at DeepMind, focused on developing and maintaining threat models for Harmful Manipulation, evaluating risks, and shaping deployment safeguards for frontier AI models.

Responsibilities

  • Refine and maintain Harmful Manipulation threat modeling frameworks to define critical thresholds, and integrate these models into Google’s Frontier Safety Framework risk determination processes to support deployment decision-making.
  • Partner cross-functionally to design and implement evaluations identifying Harmful Manipulation-related capabilities and risks, publish on novel methodologies and capabilities insights.
  • Collaborate across evaluation and mitigation teams to determine if deployment safeguards are adequate for high-capability models.
  • Engage with external research community and stakeholders including governmental entities, national safety institutes, third-party organisations (including the Frontier Model Forum) and external subject matter experts.
  • Monitor the external competitor landscape, emerging dual-use methodologies and broader frontier AI domain.

Qualifications

  • PhD degree in Computer Science, Political Science, Psychology, Computational Social Science, a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
  • Experience performing technical work; for example, OSINT data collection, API scraping, log analysis, and other data analysis.
  • Experience studying, tracking, or evaluating the mechanics of human manipulation, persuasion, propaganda, influence operations, social engineering, or a related social phenomena.

Skills

Required:Threat modelingRisk assessment

Benefits

  • Learn more about benefits at Google (externally linked)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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