Research Engineer, Human Understanding

The Deep View

Los Angeles, California, US
Base: 174,000 usd - 252,000 usd; bonus/equity: bon...
On-site
Multimodal modelling for humans
Speech & audio/visual focus
Foundational multimodal ai capabilities
This role is pivotal in developing foundational multimodal AI capabilities to understand, generate, and protect human likeness

Job Summary

  • This role is pivotal in developing foundational multimodal AI capabilities to understand, generate, and protect human likeness.
  • You will play a critical role in developing and deploying models that can provide accurate human understanding across multiple modalities, while also building robust defenses against sophisticated AI-driven manipulation and impersonation.
  • We are seeking a highly motivated Research Engineer (L5) with a strong background in multi-modal modelling for humans and a focus on speech & audio/visual to join the effort within Google DeepMind's Frontier AI unit.

Matching Summary

This role is pivotal in developing foundational multimodal AI capabilities to understand, generate, and protect human likeness.

Salary

Base: 174,000 USD - 252,000 USD; Bonus/Equity: bonus + equity; Benefits: benefits

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • multimodal modelling for humans
  • speech & audio/visual focus
  • foundational multimodal AI capabilities
  • human-centric understanding and generation
  • advanced multimodal human representations
  • experimental research cycles

Nice-to-have

  • Generative AI techniques
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • privacy-preserving machine learning
  • responsible AI practices
  • top-tier AI/ML conference publications

Key Requirements

  • PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related technical field
  • 3+ years of relevant experience
  • Experience developing machine learning models
  • Experience with large-scale vision language models
  • Strong Python programming skills
  • Experience with at least one major deep learning framework (e.g., JAX)
  • Experience conducting independent research and development

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