Head of Research, Professional Intelligence, DeepMind
Mountain View, CA, USA · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Experience
- 10 years in applied NLP research and productionization; 4 years leading technical or research teams and mentoring engineers.
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Applied Statistics, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads a research team building domain-specific AI for high-stakes industries, developing evaluation datasets and methods, and deploying research advances with enterprise partners.
What you'll do
- Lead, mentor, and grow research scientists and machine learning engineers; prioritize work and manage research projects.
- Oversee benchmark datasets and evaluation suites for factual accuracy, citation fidelity, and multi-step reasoning.
- Partner with engineering, product, and legal experts to deploy research advances to early enterprise partners.
What they ask for
- PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Applied Statistics, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in applied NLP research and productionization, including advanced prompting and LLM fine-tuning or reinforcement learning (RL).
- 4 years of experience leading technical or research teams and mentoring engineers.
Nice to have
- Startup experience iterating quickly and exploring strategies to optimize performance.
- Exposure to production ML systems or model deployment; success building AI software and systems for specific industries.
Pay
$262000 - $364000 (USD) base salary
Tools
NLP, LLM, reinforcement learning (RL), Python
AI focus
Research and development of domain-specific AI for high-stakes industries, including LLM training, agent performance, and rigorous evaluation; deployment of research advances to enterprise partners.
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