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# Research Scientist, Social Simulation and Agents, DeepMind

- **Company:** Google LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $147,000.0 - $210,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Google Tools, Large Language Models, Natural Language Understanding
- **Published:** August 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/55FED6EA6A424EC98935C7150D2D5548/job/

## About the Role

* PhD in Computer Science, Computational Social Science, Statistics, or a related field.
 * 2 years of experience publishing research in machine learning or NLP conferences or journals (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, COLM).
 * 2 years of experience in one or more of the following areas: social impact of AI, reinforcement learning, multimodal agents, computational social science, or natural language understanding.

Preferred qualifications:

 * 3 years of experience with training, evaluating, and interpreting large language models.
 * Experience working with large and noisy datasets.
 * Experience collaborating across interdisciplinary fields.
 * Experience designing and executing independent research projects.
 * Passion for research on societal benefits and implications of the internet and AI with a focus on simulation.

## Description

* Drive projects by defining key research questions.
 * Design, implement, and evaluate experiments to provide clear answers.
 * Publish research findings in top academic conferences and journals, staying up to date with the latest advancements in the field.
 * Collaborate with internal and external scientific domain experts.
 * Contribute to real-world impact by landing research in Google products and services.


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