Group Product Manager, Frontier Model Protection, DeepMind
Mountain View, CA, USA +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
New York, NY, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA - Experience
- 10 years in product management or a related technical role; 5 years taking technical products from conception to launch.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Owns product strategy and roadmap for protecting Google DeepMind frontier models from extraction, unauthorized distillation, and intellectual property theft.
What you'll do
- Define multi-year goals, strategy, and roadmap for model protection and anti-distillation defenses.
- Set policies, runtime guardrails, and evaluation frameworks to balance IP protection with model utility, developer experience, and commercial growth.
- Partner with researchers, engineers, executives, peer labs, and AI Safety Institutes to develop defenses and shared evaluation benchmarks.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
- 5 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree, MBA, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Business, or a related field.
- Experience in AI security or model defense; familiarity with AI governance frameworks, LLM security standards, or external safety coalitions.
Pay
$300000 - $333000 (USD) (base salary)
Tools
watermarking, query analysis, OWASP Top 10
AI focus
Protects frontier models against model extraction, unauthorized distillation, and intellectual property theft; develops runtime defenses, guardrails, and evaluation methods.
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