Research Engineer, Responsible Frontier AI Research, DeepMind
Google· DeepMind
London, UKNot specifiedPosted 1w ago
About the role
Research Engineer role focused on responsible frontier AI research within Google DeepMind, developing scalable safety-focused engineering solutions, evaluating and mitigating manipulation risks in frontier language models, and collaborating with researchers to translate safety research into robust implementations.
Responsibilities
- Prototype and deliver scalable engineering solutions across the Responsibility research portfolio.
- Architect and optimize training and inference pipelines to detect and evaluate harmful manipulation behaviors in frontier language models.
- Develop post-training strategies to mitigate manipulation risks including deceptive persuasion, sycophancy, and covert influence tactics.
- Collaborate with Research Scientists to translate safety research into robust implementations and present results to cross-functional stakeholders.
- Build and maintain evaluation infrastructure to systematically track model safety performance across releases.
Qualifications
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Experience working on AI safety or responsible AI research.
Skills
Required:AI safety / responsible AI research
Nice to have:PythonC++
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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