Research Engineer, Tech Lead Manager, Frontier and AGI Security, DeepMind
San Francisco, CA, USA +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
Mountain View, CA, USA
New York, NY, USA - Experience
- 5 years in cybersecurity; 5 years developing agentic tools; 2 years as a people manager. Preferred: 2 years in software development or engineering.
- Education
- PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads engineering and research to protect frontier models from cyber misuse, improve cyber defenses, and bring safety capabilities into Gemini releases.
What you'll do
- Improve adversarial evaluation and auto-red-teaming techniques.
- Develop out-of-model defenses, including classifiers and introspection probes, and collaborate on capabilities based on adversarial research.
- Help increase Gemini’s cyber defense capabilities and work toward production deployment.
What they ask for
- PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in cybersecurity.
- 5 years of experience developing agentic tools.
- 2 years of experience as a people manager.
Nice to have
- 2 years of experience in software development or engineering.
- Track record of research or engineering achievements, such as peer-reviewed publications.
Pay
$207000 - $300000 (USD) base salary
Tools
Gemini
AI focus
Applies engineering, ML, RL, and cybersecurity to protect frontier models from cyber misuse, improve adversarial evaluation and defenses, and increase Gemini’s cyber defense capabilities.
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