Research Scientist, Pretraining, Gemini Data, DeepMind

Google
Paris, France
about 2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
2 years minimum
Compensation
€104,000.0 - €107,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics Data Systems Machine Learning Large Language Models Information Technology

Job description

Research Scientist, Pretraining, Gemini Data, DeepMind

Location: Paris, France

Minimum Qualifications:

  • PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience in LLM modeling (pre-training or fine-tuning).
  • One or more scientific publications in the ML/AI conferences or journals (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR).

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience applying AI/ML techniques to any of these domains (legal, finance, or healthcare).
  • Experience taking research from concept to product.
  • Experience with collaborating or leading an applied research project.
  • Experience with JAX.

About the Job: We are seeking a driven Research Scientist or Research Engineer to expand the capabilities of our Gemini pre-training models across the legal, finance, and healthcare domains.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, 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 diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Salary:

France: 104,000 - 107,000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and maintain high-quality evaluation protocols to assess model capabilities, identify gaps, and measure headroom within the legal, financial, and healthcare sectors.
  • Propose novel data solutions and execute rigorous, end-to-end experimental plans to address known model limitations, construct entirely new capabilities, and demonstrate measurable improvements.
  • Propose, build and rapidly iterate on new ideas based on the team needs.

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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google’s EEO Policy, Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal, Belonging at Google, and How we hire.

If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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Locations:

DeepMind, Paris, France

Requirements

Etudes/recherche

Benefits & conditions

France: 104,000 - 107,000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

About the company

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, 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.

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