Research Scientist, Multimodal Alignment, Safety and Fairness, DeepMind
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Mountain View, CA · Posted October 31, 2026
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About the job
Minimum qualifications: PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Experience in Python and deep learning frameworks (e.g., JAX, Flax, or Gemma). Experience in developing multimodal AI models and systems. Experience conducting research and development, including experimental design, implementation, and analysis. Publication record in machine learning conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, ECCV).