Senior Research Engineer, GenMedia - Google DeepMind

Snapshot:

We research and develop cutting-edge machine learning models for billions of Google users. Our current projects include Imagen 3 and Veo. Located in Seattle, we collaborate with teams around the world, especially Google PAs to iteratively improve the model performance and expand its capabilities.

About us:

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind, we’re a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, and collaborate with others on critical challenges, ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.

The role:

Key responsibilities:

You’ll be applying research ideas to high-impact real world problems. This includes prototyping, dataset curation, building pipeline and system, performance optimization and deployment. 

Some of our current projects are focusing on the areas below so experience in any of these is highly beneficial:

• Generative Media (image, video, and audio)
• Multimodal Understanding
• Model Optimization
• Reinforcement Learning

About you:

We seek out individuals who thrive in ambiguity and who are willing to help out with whatever moves prototypes forward. We regularly need to invent novel solutions to problems, and often change course if our ideas don’t work out, so flexibility and adaptability to work on any project is a must.

In order to set you up for success as a Research Engineer at Google DeepMind, we look for the following skills and experience:

• MSc or PhD degree in computer science, mathematics, applied stats, machine learning or similar experience working in industry
• Knowledge of machine learning, statistics, and diffusion model theories
• Hands-on experience with training diffusion models
• Proven experience of Tensorflow or similar ML frameworks (e.g. JAX or PyTorch)
• Recent experience conducting applied research
• Proven experience working in industry, working on projects from proof-of-concept through to implementation highly beneficial

In addition, the following would be an advantage:

• Experience with JAX
• Experience in controlled media generation and editing
• Cross functional collaboration experience

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $161,000 - $245,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.

Application deadline: 12pm PST Friday April 4th, 2025  

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