Research Scientist, Socioaffective Agents

Research Scientist, Socioaffective Agents

New York City, New York, US

Members of the Affective Computing group contribute broadly across Deep Mind efforts including to the Gemini program, frontier agents research, and applied research for Google products. The group emphasizes research in socio-emotional understanding and generation tasks in audio-, visual- and audiovisual settings, and increasingly in multi-agent settings. Research topics include, but are not limited to, better audio-visual representations for understanding emotional expressions, cont rollability of expressions in generated imagery/video/speech, conversational naturalness in dialog and TTS, affective rewards for reinforcement learning, human‑AI collaboration, and safety mechanisms for harms like emotional manipulation and over‑reliance.

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At Google Deep Mind, we’re a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, and collaborate with others on critical challenges, ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.

Research Scientists at Google Deep Mind lead our efforts in developing novel algorithmic architecture towards the end goal of solving and building Artificial General Intelligence.

In this role, responsibilities will include making key contributions into the latest research developed into the Gemini workstream, such as:

• Data:
  Unlocking new multimodal affective capabilities in large models, both pre‑training and post‑training, focusing on audiovisual conversations and social agents.
• Models:
  Improving quality of models for understanding and generation. This includes research to improve tokenizers, better techniques for generation quality, distill for on‑device, and looking at joint audio and visual representations.
• Evals:
  Better evaluation methods (human, auto raters, automated metrics) to measure quality of open‑ended tasks.

In order to set you up for success as a Research Scientist at Google Deep Mind, we look for the following skills and experience:

• PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related field. Open also to backgrounds in Psychology (Social, Developmental, Cognitive), but must have strong Computational emphasis.
• Proven experience working with LLMs.
• Audio or video understanding and/or generation experience.

In addition, the following would be an advantage:

• Proven track record of research and publications in audio generation, video generation.
• Experience with JAX, PyTorch or similar training frameworks.
• Experience in Python and/or C++.
• Experience applying and product ionizing state‑of‑the‑art large audiovisual, language and/or multimodal research.
• Diverse experience collaborating cross‑function and with other researchers.

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.

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