Research Developer, Cutting-Edge AI Incubation, DeepMind

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Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, machine learning, mathematics, or statistics, or equivalent practical experience
• Two years of experience in machine learning, algorithm design, data structures, or distributed software systems
• Two years of experience in programming in Python or C++
• One year of experience in technical project management or machine learning systems, from conceptualization to implementation and deployment

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in developing, fine-tuning, or optimizing foundational models, including techniques such as human feedback reinforcement learning or AI fine-tuning, supervised fine-tuning, efficient hyperparameter tuning, or inference optimization
• Experience in customization, adaptive systems, user modeling, retrieval-augmented generation, or agentic memory architectures, or interest in these areas
• Experience with machine learning frameworks and large-scale model training or serving infrastructure
• Experience in collaborating across research and product boundaries to co-design technical architectures
• Experience in scientific analysis, technical problem-solving, and technical communication

About this job

At Google, research-focused software developers are integrated across the company, enabling them to run large-scale tests and rapidly and widely deploy promising ideas. These ideas can come from internal projects or collaborations with research programs at universities and global technical institute partners.

From creating experiences and implementing prototypes to designing new architectures, developers work on concrete problems, including artificial intelligence, data exploration, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, compiler improvements for mobile platforms, and foundational research, among others. However, our researchers remain connected to their roots as active contributors to the research community by establishing partnerships with universities and publishing papers.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity's most revolutionary inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams determined to advance AI development to tackle complex global challenges and accelerate innovation in high-quality products for billions of users. We put our technologies to the service of the general interest and scientific research, ensuring that safety and ethics remain our absolute priority.

We push the boundaries in many areas. Our international teams offer diverse training opportunities and varied career paths to those driven by the desire to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.

The base Canadian salary for this full-time position is Canada: $185000 - $190000 (CAD) + 15% bonus target + equity + CAD benefits, determined by role, level, and location. Individual compensation is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

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Responsibilities

• Design, train, and optimize fundamental algorithms and AI systems (e.g., custom model adaptation, agentic workflows, contextual memory architectures, dynamic query optimization, and multimodal reasoning)
• Lead end-to-end technical development, from algorithmic design and experimental prototyping to production-quality architecture and large-scale serving infrastructure
• Work directly with Google's development and product teams to integrate and strengthen our foundational technologies into production environments (e.g., the Helix project, agent workspaces, and intelligent system integrations)
• Develop new methodologies for automated and human-intervened evaluation to measure capacity gains, latency and compute efficiency, alignment, and customization fidelity

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