Research Engineer, GenMedia

DeepMind•Mountain View, CA

3h•$161,000 - $300,000

About The Position

At Google DeepMind, we value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know. Snapshot We research and develop cutting-edge machine learning models for billions of Google users. Our current projects include Imagen 4, Nano Banana and Veo. Located in Mountain View, 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 You’ll be applying research ideas to high-impact real world problems. This includes prototyping, dataset curation, model training, performance optimization and deployment. 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. What We Offer At Google DeepMind, we want employees and their families to live happier and healthier lives, both in and out of work, and our benefits reflect that. Some select benefits we offer: enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave, private medical and dental insurance for yourself and any dependents, and flexible working options. We strive to continually improve our working environment, and provide you with excellent facilities such as healthy food, an on-site gym, faith rooms, terraces etc. We are also open to relocating candidates to Mountain View and offer a bespoke service and immigration support to make it as easy as possible (depending on eligibility). The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $161,000 - 300,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process. Note: In the event your application is successful and an offer of employment is made to you, any offer of employment will be conditional on the results of a background check, performed by a third party acting on our behalf. For more information on how we handle your data, please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy.

Requirements

BSc, 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 is highly beneficial.