Research Engineer, GenMedia

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

Key responsibilities

• You’ll be applying research ideas to high-impact real world problems. This includes prototyping, dataset curation, model training, performance optimization and deployment. 
• Some of our current projects are focusing on the areas below so experience in any of these is highly beneficial:
• Generative Media (video and audio-visual)
• Multimodal Understanding
• Multimodal evaluations
• Efficient inference
• Model Optimization
• Reinforcement Learning

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.

In order to set you up for success as a Research Engineer at Google DeepMind, we look for the following skills and experience:

• BSc, MSc or PhD degree in computer science, mathematics, applied stats, machine learning or similar experience working in industry
• Knowledge of machine learning, statistics, computer vision and diffusion model theories.  
• Hands-on experience with training diffusion models is a strong plus
• 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 highly beneficial.

In addition, the following would be an advantage:

• Experience in video understanding models and Multimodal LMs
• Experience in controlled media generation
• Cross functional collaboration experience

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $197,000 USD - 291,000 USD + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.

Application deadline: Sep 30, 2025

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