Research Engineer, Chemical, Biological and Nuclear AI Safety, DeepMind
Google· DeepMind
London, UKfull-timePosted 3d ago
About the role
Research engineering role focused on building safeguards for frontier AI models in the CBRNE space, including applied research, production code, and launching safeguards at scale with strict data and security controls.
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.
- Architect 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 degree or equivalent practical experience in a management, scientific, technical or engineering field.
- 8 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:Code proficiency in a shared, version-controlled codebaseMachine learning model training/evaluation
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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