Research Scientist/Engineer, Security Classifier

DeepMind • Mountain View, CA

41d • $166,000 - $244,000

About The Position

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. About Us Model distillation is a key innovation enabling the acceleration of AI, turning large general models into small and specialized models used across the industry. However, distillation techniques can also be used to steal critical model capabilities, representing a significant threat to the intellectual property and integrity of our foundational models. The Role As part of the Security & Privacy Research Team at Google DeepMind, you will build our first line of distillation and security defenses: a state-of-the-art detection system. You will research, design, and train novel classifiers to identify distillation and other security threats in real time. This is a unique opportunity to build the core detection system that protects Gemini. You will be at the forefront of defining how we monitor and protect GDM models by building the core systems that identify sophisticated threats.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related quantitative field, or a B.S./M.S. in a similar field with 2+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Demonstrated research or product expertise in machine learning, with a focus on classifier training, classifier evaluation and model evaluation.

Nice To Haves

• Deep expertise in training and evaluating a wide range of classifier architectures.
• Proven experience building and scaling ML training and evaluation infrastructure.
• Experience building data pipelines using LLM autoraters.
• Strong understanding of model distillation, model stealing, and other capability extraction techniques.
• Strong software engineering skills and experience with ML frameworks like JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
• A track record of landing research impact or shipping production ML systems in a multi-team environment.

Responsibilities

• Build Scalable Classifier Infrastructure: Design and build scalable pipelines for training and evaluating many novel classifiers.
• Train and Evaluate Classifiers: Train and evaluate classifiers for distillation detection and other key GDM security priorities.
• Own Classifier Deployment and Integration: Collaborate with model training, infrastructure, and deployment teams to deploy classifiers into our production models.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree