Research Scientist, Information Quality

This role requires a passion for advancing information literacy through AI & machine learning, focusing on assessing media trustworthiness (images, audio, and video) and exploring concepts like authenticity, provenance, and context. Key responsibilities include formulating metrics, simulations, rapid prototyping of ML techniques, exploratory data analysis, collaborating with product teams to drive research, and developing tools and frameworks to accelerate research. A public example of research work is Backstory.

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.

We’re a dedicated scientific community, committed to “solving intelligence” and ensuring our technology is used for widespread public benefit. 

We’ve built a supportive and inclusive environment where collaboration is encouraged and learning is shared freely. We don’t set limits based on what others think is possible or impossible. We drive ourselves and inspire each other to push boundaries and achieve ambitious goals.

To succeed in this role, you will need to be passionate about advancing information literacy using machine learning and other computational techniques. You'll join an interdisciplinary team of domain experts, ML researchers, and engineers to conduct cutting-edge research and advance the next generation of multimodal AI assistants that help co-investigation and deliberation.  Relevant domains may include, but are not limited to, determining media authenticity, context discovery, and open source intelligence investigations.  A public example of recent work is Backstory.  

Key responsibilities:

• Drive the projects by defining key research questions.
• Design, implement, and evaluate experiments to provide clear answers
• Contribute to real world impact, by landing your research in Google products and services.
• Publish research findings in top academic conferences and journals
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in the field
• Collaborate with internal and external scientific domain experts.

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

• PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field.
• Strong publication record in top machine learning and/or computer vision conferences or journals (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV).
• Expertise in one or more of the following areas: social impact of AI, reinforcement learning, multimodal agents, computer vision, natural language understanding.

In addition, the following would be an advantage: 

• Passion for research on societal benefits and  implications of the internet and AI with focus in information literacy.
• Experience with training, evaluating, and interpreting large language models.
• Experience working with large and noisy datasets.
• Experience collaborating across fields.
• Proven ability to design and execute independent research projects.

When assessing technical background we will take a holistic view of the mix of scientific, ML and computational experience. We do not expect you to be an expert in all fields simultaneously.

At Google DeepMind, we value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between 166,000 USD - 244,000 USD + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.