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Research Scientist, FSF Risk Modeling and Governance, DeepMind

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Hybrid (London; New York; San Francisco)$207k - $300kPosted 1w ago

About the role

Research scientist role leading governance research and risk modeling for the Frontier Safety Framework (FSF) at Google DeepMind, focusing on risk assessment, governance innovation, and publication of safety reports.

Responsibilities

  • Develop FSF research and write updates of the FSF to adapt to changing safety, governance, and policy opportunities and needs.
  • Research and model pre-mitigation risks to ground empirical risk assessment work (e.g. by defining FSF thresholds) and inform safeguard development.
  • Work across evaluation and mitigation teams to assess the extent to which safeguards have reduced risk, and whether they are adequate for further development and deployment of frontier models.
  • Manage a team of researchers and cross-functional collaborators working on projects, and represent the risk assessment program in internal and external governance.
  • Write our external safety reports, and work with appropriate policy/governance teams to strengthen the frontier AI governance ecosystem.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Economics, Philosophy, or a STEM subject, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 3 years of research experience in frontier AI safety or governance (e.g., in threat modeling, safety frameworks, or dangerous capability/alignment evaluations).
  • Ability to communicate complex technical topics to leads, governance bodies and policy experts.
  • Track record of driving complex projects, including in research settings.
  • Track record of applying conceptual and quantitative reasoning methods to uncertain and under-constrained research or forecasting problems.

Skills

Required:PhD or equivalent experience in relevant fieldFrontier AI safety and governanceResearch leadership and team management
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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