Research Scientist, AQUA

Job Title: Research Scientist, AQUA

We are seeking a highly motivated and innovative Research Scientist to join our team in Bangalore, focused on advancing the state-of-the-art in autonomous agents through reinforcement learning and ML optimization methods.

As a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, you will conduct cutting-edge research on large language models (LLMs), focusing on the development of more capable, robust autonomous agents.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and evaluate models, agents and software prototypes of large foundational models.
• Push the boundary of state of the art RL methods and machine learning optimization methods to build autonomous agents.
• Report and present research findings and developments including status and results clearly and efficiently both internally and externally, verbally and in writing.
• Suggest and engage in team collaborations to meet ambitious research goals.
• Work with external collaborators and maintain relationships with relevant research labs and key individuals as appropriate.
• Work in collaboration with our Responsible AI teams to ensure our advances in intelligence are developed ethically and provide broad benefits to humanity.

About You:

• You are a passionate and talented researcher with a strong foundation and a proven ability to conduct impactful research in AI.
• You have a collaborative mindset and are excited to work as part of a team to tackle ambitious research challenges.
• You are passionate about seeing your research translated into real-world products that improve the lives of users and are eager to work in an environment where research has a direct path to product impact.

Requirements:

• PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
• Strong publication record in top-tier machine learning conferences or journals.
• Solid understanding of deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and/or speech processing.
• Experience with relevant ML frameworks such as JAX, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with multimodal learning, large language models, and/or assistive AI agents.
• Experience with prompt engineering, few-shot learning, post-training techniques, and evaluations.
• Familiarity with large-scale model training and deployment.
• Strong programming skills in Python or similar languages.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.