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Research Scientist, Safety Oversight, DeepMind

Google · United States · On-site

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About the role

We aim to turn production data into intelligence on the safety of deployed AI models. Safety Oversight is a new team tasked with using large-scale production traffic and a variety of automated evaluation methods to monitor the safety and alignment of deployed models.

What they're looking for

  • PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 3 years of experience building and shipping technical products
  • Experience in the domain area of generative AI and Large Language Models (LLM)
More about this role
  • Build classifiers and large-scale data pipelines to detect model misbehavior and misuse end-to-end.
  • Research and develop cross-context monitoring systems to detect coordinated harms, developing novel signal aggregation methods across disparate user sessions to identify large-scale attack vectors.
  • Think critically about novel methods for monitoring using model activations, actions, chains-of-thought and final answers.
  • Collaborate closely with infrastructure teams and data scientists to scale your work and regularly share results with the wider safety team.
  • PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 3 years of experience building and shipping technical products.
  • Experience in the domain area of generative AI and Large Language Models (LLM).
  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • 3 years of experience developing code, running experiments and analyses collaboratively with coding agents.
  • Experience building large-scale, highly parallelised data pipelines, working on data quality, automated evaluation design and simple statistical modeling.
  • Ability to approach new research questions...

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