# Research Scientist, AQUA **Company**: Google DeepMind **Location**: Bangalore, India **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15733006 **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/7640947?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e5396d5d-402 ## Description 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. ## Skills ### Required - Deep Learning - Natural Language Processing - Computer Vision - Speech Processing - JAX - TensorFlow - PyTorch ### Nice to have - Multimodal Learning - Large Language Models - Assistive AI Agents - Prompt Engineering - Few-Shot Learning - Post-Training Techniques - Evaluations - Large-Scale Model Training - Deployment --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/7640947?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)