Google DeepMind · Mountain View
Research Scientist/Engineer, Security Classifier
11/13/2025
Description
- Build Scalable Classifier Infrastructure: Design and build scalable pipelines for training and evaluating many novel classifiers.
- Train and Evaluate Classifiers: Train and evaluate classifiers for distillation detection and other key GDM security priorities.
- Own Classifier Deployment and Integration: Collaborate with model training, infrastructure, and deployment teams to deploy classifiers into our production models.
Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related quantitative field, or a B.S./M.S. in a similar field with 2+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Demonstrated research or product expertise in machine learning, with a focus on classifier training, classifier evaluation and model evaluation.
- Deep expertise in training and evaluating a wide range of classifier architectures.
- Proven experience building and scaling ML training and evaluation infrastructure.
- Experience building data pipelines using LLM autoraters.
- Strong understanding of model distillation, model stealing, and other capability extraction techniques.
- Strong software engineering skills and experience with ML frameworks like JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
- A track record of landing research impact or shipping production ML systems in a multi-team environment.
Benefits
The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $166,000 - $244,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.