Research Engineer, GenMedia
Mountain View, California, US
Full Time Senior-level / Expert USD 161K - 300K
DeepMind
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Snapshot
The Product team collaborates closely with a wide variety of teams across Google/Alphabet, leveraging Google DeepMind expertise to deploy advanced machine learning algorithms with the goal of improving Alphabet products and services.
We are a driven, collaborative, diverse team based in London and Mountain View. Our current and past engagements include teams in Cloud, Android, Assistant, Youtube and Maps. We collaborate closely with Google DeepMind and Google Research teams on several projects. Each project typically consists of a team of engineers working closely with our product partners and with our researchers, product managers and program managers.
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 the most promising models and research to high-impact real world problems, by rapid-prototyping initial concepts, and designing and running experiments to evaluate the opportunity. You will gain an understanding of the path from research to production whilst working on real world problems, with the chance to see your work make a difference. You’ll be part of a small project team led by Research Engineers, with the partnership with research scientists and significant impact in the short term, and close mentorship from Product Unit leadership.
Some of our current projects are focusing on the areas below so experience in any of these is highly beneficial:
- Generative Media (image, video, and audio)
- Multimodal Understanding
- 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, and diffusion model theories.
- Hands-on experience with training diffusion models
- 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 diffusion model latency reduction
- Experience in controlled media generation
- Cross functional collaboration experience
What we offer
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.
We are also open to relocating candidates to Mountain View and offer a bespoke service and immigration support to make it as easy as possible (depending on eligibility).
The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $161,000 - 300,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.
Tags: Computer Science Diffusion models JAX Machine Learning Mathematics PhD Prototyping PyTorch Reinforcement Learning Research Statistics TensorFlow
Perks/benefits: Career development Equity / stock options Fitness / gym Flex hours Health care Insurance Medical leave Parental leave Salary bonus
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