• Research Scientist, Inference-time Methods, Omega

    Google (New York, NY)


    Minimum qualifications:

    + PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

    + Experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript), including application of data structures and algorithms.

    + Experience in Machine Learning (Deep Neural Networks, Transformers).

    + Experience contributing to research communities or efforts, including publishing papers at conferences (such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR).

    Preferred qualifications:

    + Experience with large language models and inference time techniques.

    + Experience in conducting research or with machine learning systems.

    + Experience publishing at machine learning (ML) conferences.

     

    As an organization, Google maintains a portfolio of research projects driven by fundamental research, new product innovation, product contribution and infrastructure goals, while providing individuals and teams the freedom to emphasize specific types of work. As a Research Scientist, you'll setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly, managing deadlines and deliverables while applying the latest theories to develop new and improved products, processes, or technologies. From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more.

     

    As a Research Scientist, you'll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

    Google Research addresses challenges that define the technology of today and tomorrow. From conducting fundamental research to influencing product development, our research teams have the opportunity to impact technology used by billions of people every day.

     

    Our teams aspire to make discoveries that impact everyone, and core to our approach is sharing our research and tools to fuel progress in the field -- we publish regularly in academic journals, release projects as open source, and apply research to Google products.

     

    The US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

     

    Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google (https://careers.google.com/benefits/) .

    Responsibilities:

    + Be responsible for designing new methods for context building and inference scaling methods (retrieval based, thinking, tool calls), either from a pure inference perspective or by doing further training of the model.

    + Advance the model capabilities on complex queries by crafting the right context and engage in ambitious high-paced research (see e.g., https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/advanced-version-of-gemini-with-deep-think-officially-achieves-gold-medal-standard-at-the-international-mathematical-olympiad/ as the type of problems the Researcher will be engaging on).

     

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