Research Scientist – Foundational Research in Language
Company | DeepMind |
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Location | Seattle, WA, USA |
Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | PhD |
Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- PhD in natural language processing, machine learning, or closely related field.
- A proven track record of high-impact publications.
- Hands-on experience with Python, neural network training, and language data.
- Ability to communicate technical ideas effectively, e.g. through discussions, whiteboard sessions, written documentation.
Responsibilities
- Identify and characterize the key technical challenges in building useful, trustworthy, and scalable language models and LLM systems.
- Propose, implement, analyze, and test new solutions to these challenges.
- Report and present research findings, targeting impact on both internal product teams and the external research community.
- Contribute to team collaborations to meet ambitious research goals.
Preferred Qualifications
- Interactive post-training methodologies for better dialogue skills
- Statistically-motivated hybrid evaluation methodologies
- Fundamental research on post-training such as reward model generalization