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Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind · Mountain View/San Francisco/New York City
Research Scientist, Tech Lead Manager, Model Threat Mitigation
11/13/2025
Description
- Lead and Manage the Team: Build, manage, and mentor a diverse team of researchers and engineers. Foster a culture of technical excellence and creative problem-solving in a high-stakes, adversarial environment.
- Define Technical Strategy: Set the research and engineering roadmap for the Distillation Defense workstream, communicating this to stakeholders and your team.
- Drive Impact & Policy: Lead the effort to set protective policies for Core Model Capabilities. Work with leadership to define acceptable risk levels and trade-offs between model defensibility and performance.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Legal, and other key teams across GDM and Google to ensure defenses are integrated into the Gemini ecosystem and to influence the broader standard for responsible AI defense.
Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related quantitative field, or a B.S./M.S. in a similar field with 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
- 2+ years of experience in technical leadership or people management, managing research scientists or software engineers.
- Demonstrated research or product expertise in a field related to adversarial ML, model security, model evaluation, pre-training, post-training, or distillation.
- Experience designing and implementing large-scale ML systems and/or counter-abuse infrastructure.
- Deep technical expertise in one or more of the following: model distillation, model stealing, Reinforcement Learning, Supervised Fine-Tuning, embeddings analysis, or security.
- Experience managing research teams with a focus on publication or applying novel research to production environments.
- Experience interacting with leadership and cross-functional partners (e.g. Legal, Product).
- Strong software engineering skills and experience with ML frameworks like JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
- Current or prior US security clearance.
Benefits
The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $248,000 - $349,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.