Research Scientist, FSF Risk Modeling and Governance, DeepMind
About The Position
Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority. We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Requirements
- PhD in Economics, Philosophy, or a STEM subject, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of research experience in frontier AI safety or governance (e.g., in threat modeling, safety frameworks, or dangerous capability/alignment evaluations).
Nice To Haves
- Understanding of project management, including in research settings.
- Ability to drive projects.
- Ability to communicate complex technical topics to leads, governance bodies and policy experts.
- Excellent conceptual thinking skills.
Responsibilities
- Develop Frontier Safety Framework (FSF): research and write updates of the FSF to adapt to changing safety, governance, and policy opportunities and needs.
- Research and model pre-mitigation risks to ground our empirical risk assessment work (e.g. by defining FSF thresholds) and inform safeguard development.
- Work across evaluation and mitigation teams to assess the extent to which safeguards have reduced risk, and whether they are adequate for further development and deployment.
- Manage a team of researchers and cross-functional collaborators working on projects, and represent the risk assessment program in internal and external governance.
- Write our external safety reports, and work with appropriate policy/governance teams to strengthen the frontier AI governance ecosystem.
Benefits
- 20% bonus target
- equity
- benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
