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Research Developer, Frontier AI Incubation, DeepMind

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4 hours ago
Montréal, CanadaMid Level
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Responsibilities

  • Design, train, and optimize foundational algorithms and machine learning systems for personalization, agentic workflows, contextual memory, dynamic prompt optimization, and multimodal reasoning.
  • Lead technical development from algorithmic design and experimental prototyping through production architecture and scaled serving infrastructure.
  • Partner with Google development and product teams to integrate and harden core technologies in production environments, including Project Helix and agent workspaces.
  • Develop automated and human-in-the-loop evaluation methods covering capability gains, latency, compute efficiency, alignment, and personalization fidelity.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, or Statistics, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 2 years of experience in machine learning, algorithm design, data structures, or distributed software systems.
  • At least 2 years of programming experience in Python or C++.
  • At least 1 year of experience taking technical projects or machine learning systems from concept through implementation and deployment.
  • Preferred experience developing, fine-tuning, or optimizing foundation models using reinforcement learning from human or AI feedback, supervised fine-tuning, parameter-efficient tuning, or inference optimization.
  • Preferred experience or interest in personalization, adaptive systems, user modeling, retrieval-augmented generation, or agentic memory architectures.
  • Preferred experience with machine learning frameworks and large-scale model training or serving infrastructure.
  • Preferred experience collaborating across research and product boundaries and conducting scientific analysis, technical problem-solving, and technical communication.

Benefits

  • 15% bonus target, equity, and benefits are offered in addition to base pay.
  • The role is part of Google DeepMind's interdisciplinary research environment with opportunities to collaborate with universities and publish papers.
  • The position is based in Canada; specific remote or office arrangement is not stated.

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