Research Engineer, Frontier Safety Risk Assessment, DeepMind

Research Engineer, Frontier Safety Risk Assessment

At Deep Mind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority. We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer various learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.

Responsibilities:

• Drive novel research to measure, assess, and prioritize risks from frontier AI models.
• Identify and analyze emerging risk pathways in areas including loss of control, Machine Learning (ML) Research and Development (R&D), cybersecurity, and harmful manipulation.
• Design and develop new methods for measuring pre-mitigation and post-mitigation risk, incorporating forecasting and scenario planning.
• Implement research findings and build technical solutions using Python, interacting with various codebases.
• Prioritize research and engineering efforts within pragmatic constraints of compute and time to maximize value of information.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $174000 - $253000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits.

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