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Research Scientist – Foundational Research in Language

Research Scientist – Foundational Research in Language

CompanyDeepMind
LocationSeattle, WA, USA
Salary$Not Provided – $Not Provided
TypeFull-Time
DegreesPhD
Experience LevelSenior, 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