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Senior Research Engineer, GenMedia Safety, DeepMind

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Compensation
$174–252K/yr
Location
Mountain View, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Research Engineer will work on the GenMedia Safety team, developing data and algorithmic solutions for the safety and behavior of image and video generation models. The role involves designing research approaches and implementing research ideas, with work spanning GenMedia models and collaboration across internal and external platforms. The team focuses on balancing user experience, safety, and scalability.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Research Agenda LeadershipMachine Learning AlgorithmsResearch MethodologiesLanguage ModelingResearch LeadershipInfluencing Researchers

Qualifications

PhD in Computer Science or Related Field or Equivalent Practical Experience2 Years Research Agenda Leadership2 Years Machine Learning and Language Modeling Experience1 Year Leading Research Efforts

Full job description

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Minimum qualifications:

  • PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

  • 2 years of experience leading a research agenda.

  • 2 years of experience with machine learning algorithms, research methodologies, and language modeling.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 1 year of experience leading research efforts and influencing other researchers.

About the job

The GenMedia Safety team develops the data and algorithmic solutions that define the safety and behavior of GDM’s latest image and video generation models. In this role, you will build and deploy innovations that impact millions of users. This is a collaborative role focused on delivering effective outcomes across our internal and external platforms.

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At DeepMind, we are a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for public benefit and scientific discovery, and collaborate with others on critical issues, ensuring safety and ethics are the priority.

You will be comfortable both with designing approaches to new research questions and executing the technical implementation of research ideas. You will have the opportunity to work directly on Nano Banana (GDM's core image generation capability), OMNI (GDM's core video generation capability), and successor GenMedia models. We drive the development of the foundational technology adopted by numerous product areas including Gemini App, Cloud API, Search, and YouTube.

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.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Develop solutions for GenMedia models that balance user experience, safety, and scalability.

  • Utilize data and algorithmic reasoning to ensure image-generation models remain safe, and helpful.

  • Collaborate with policy experts to convert, ambiguous safety guidelines into actionable technical implementations.

  • Design and maintain protocols to identify and bridge gaps in model safety.

  • Execute experiments to inform safety strategies while innovating rapid, scalable mitigations for high-priority, time-sensitive escalations.

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How this job compares

Set against the 1,192 open Research Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$174–252K/yr
  • California median$184–338K/yr405 salary ranges
  • US median$147–257K/yr867 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $213K, is 16% below the California median midpoint ($254K) — in the middle half of Research Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 581 open Research Engineer jobs in California and 1,192 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Research Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (672 postings).
Education
402 of the 1,192 open Research Engineer jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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