The Research Scientist role at DeepMind focuses on conducting original research in multimodal AI, particularly in areas such as vision-language models and image understanding. The team aims to advance AI development to solve complex global challenges while ensuring safety and ethics are prioritized. This position involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to transition research ideas into production-grade capabilities. The role also emphasizes contributing to the wider research community through sharing and publishing findings.

• PhD degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in machine learning, recommendation systems, natural language processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, or artificial intelligence.
• Experience in an applied research setting.
• Experience with large language models, NLP, or generative AI.

• Conduct original research in multimodal AI, including vision-language models and image understanding.
• Design, train, and evaluate large-scale transformer-based architectures for image and video understanding.
• Develop novel methods for multimodal pretraining, instruction tuning, alignment, and reinforcement learning.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transition research ideas into production-grade capabilities.
• Contribute to research direction, experimental design, and scientific strategy within the Gemini organization.

• Employees at Google are often offered benefits like comprehensive health insurance, 401(k) matching, and flexible work arrangements, among other benefits.