Senior Staff Research Scientist, Gemini Research, DeepMind
Mountain View, CA, USA · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Experience
- 6 years required; preferred: 4 years leading research efforts and 2 years coding.
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads research strategy and delivers research projects to advance reasoning and post-training capabilities in Gemini models.
What you'll do
- Author research papers and share findings across Google and the research community.
- Define project data, frameworks, designs, evaluation metrics, timelines, and resource needs; deliver research projects.
- Identify emerging research areas, set long-term research plans, and address undefined technology problems with stakeholders.
What they ask for
- PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience with research agendas across multiple teams or projects.
- One or more scientific publication submission(s) for conferences, journals, or public repositories.
Nice to have
- 4 years of experience leading multiple research efforts and influencing research direction.
- 2 years of experience in coding.
Pay
$262000 - $364000 USD base salary
AI focus
Research and enable post-training, evaluation, supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, inference-time self-improvement, and advanced reasoning in Gemini models, with emphasis on capability, factuality, and alignment.
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