Research Scientist, Machine Learning and Cognition

About The Job

As an organization, Google maintains a portfolio of research projects driven by fundamental research, new product innovation, product contribution and infrastructure goals, while providing individuals and teams the freedom to emphasize specific types of work. As a Research Scientist, you'll setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly, managing deadlines and deliverables while applying the latest theories to develop new and improved products, processes, or technologies. From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more.

As a Research Scientist, you'll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

Google Research is building the next generation of intelligent systems for all Google products. To achieve this, we’re working on projects that utilize the latest computer science techniques developed by skilled software developers and research scientists. Google Research teams collaborate closely with other teams across Google, maintaining the flexibility and versatility required to adapt new projects and foci that meet the demands of the world's fast-paced business needs.

Responsibilities

• Author research papers to share and generate impact of research results across the team and in the research community.
• Define the data structure, framework, design, and evaluation metrics for research solution development and implementation under minimal guidance. Identify timelines and obtain resources needed.
• Identify new and upcoming research areas by interacting with potential external and internal collaborators. Help in developing long-term research strategy and plans to expand the impact of Google research with some guidance.
• Conduct interdisciplinary research at the intersection of cognitive science and AI/ML.
• Partner with researchers in machine learning, philosophy and the social sciences to conduct research on cutting-edge societal questions around machine cognition, consciousness and multi-agent systems.

Minimum qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with interdisciplinary research between cognitive science, computer science, machine learning, or philosophy.
• One or more scientific publication submission(s) for conferences, journals, or public repositories.

Preferred qualifications

• 2 years of experience in coding.
• 1 year of experience owning and initiating research agendas.
• Experience in a multidisciplinary academic group addressing human-centered questions.
• Experience with publications in interdisciplinary venues such as CHI, FAccT, and AIES.
• Experience in software development and machine learning (LLM evals and finetuning, ML experiment design, and ML training).