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# Research Engineer, AGI Safety and Alignment, DeepMind

- **Company:** DEEPMIND MATRIX
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $174,000.0 - $253,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Machine Learning, Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, Information Technology
- **Published:** July 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=edc9d9f23c334e18

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related Software Engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
 * 3 years of experience in software development, ML engineering, or ML research.
 * Experience working with research teams., * Experience conducting or contributing to applied research to improve the safety and alignment of frontier AI systems.
 * Experience with training large models (e.g., supervised fine-tuning, RLHF).

## Description

* Research new alignment methods, studying alignment failures, and applying AGI-scalable alignment techniques to frontier models.
 * Develop adversarially robust AGI control systems and implement them in production.
 * Research interpretability techniques to understand what AI systems are thinking.
 * Work with product teams to ensure that our research is correctly adopted.

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