Google logo

Research Scientist, Gemini Multilinguality, Google DeepMind

Google

Mountain View, CAJob$207–300K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

Most applications go out cold — see where you stand first. No sign-up to start.

You apply on the employer's site, with no Olive account needed.

Watch jobs like this.

Don't just apply. Show up ready.

Olive works from this exact posting.

At a glance

Compensation
$207–300K/yr
Location
Mountain View, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

Olive lists jobs from US employers, including remote roles you can work from the United States.

Job overview

The Research Scientist will advance multilingual Gemini capabilities through research in post-training, reinforcement learning, and agentic modeling. The role develops algorithms and evaluation methods to improve reasoning, tool use, factuality, and culturally grounded interactions across languages and modalities, then partners with research and product teams to integrate breakthroughs into Gemini models.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

LLM Post-TrainingAlignmentReinforcement LearningMultilingual BenchmarkingReasoning SystemsAgentic SystemsFoundation Model TrainingFoundation Model EvaluationResearch TranslationCommunicationCollaboration

Qualifications

Master's in Related Technical Field or Equivalent ExperienceEnglish Proficiency

Full job description

Research Scientist, Gemini Multilinguality, Google DeepMind

Share Research Scientist, Gemini Multilinguality, Google DeepMind

corporate_fare Google place Mountain View, CA, USA

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

Share Research Scientist, Gemini Multilinguality, Google DeepMind

Minimum qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

  • Experience with research in one or more of the following areas: LLM post-training and alignment, reinforcement learning, multilingual benchmarking, reasoning and agentic systems, or foundation model training.

  • Experience training, post-training, or evaluating foundation models.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Ability to translate open-ended research ideas into landed improvements in frontier models across multi-team collaborations.

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and a genuine passion for human languages and building AI that works for people everywhere.

About the job

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: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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

Responsibilities

  • Drive an ambitious research agenda in post-training, reinforcement learning, and agentic modeling to improve Gemini's reasoning, tool use, factuality and multimodal performance across global languages, dialects, and locales.

  • Develop scalable algorithms for cross-lingual capability transfer, synthetic data generation, reward modeling, and self-improvement flywheels that close the quality gap for both major global languages and low-resource languages.

  • Improve local and cultural grounding, factuality, naturalness, and language consistency across long-horizon multi-turn and multimodal interactions (text, speech, image, and video).

  • Design trustworthy evaluation methodologies, evaluations, and human-grounded reward signals to measure and steer complex agentic and culturally nuanced model behaviors.

  • Partner closely with core Gemini post-training, agentic, and pretraining/mid-training teams—as well as product partners across Google—to land research breakthroughs directly into flagship Gemini models.

Information collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Google'sApplicant and Candidate Privacy Policy (./privacy-policy) .

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 alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .

If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing ourAccommodations for Applicants form (https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2) .

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.

To all recruitment agencies: Google does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Google employees, or any other organization location. Google is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Equity is granted exclusively and discretionarily by Alphabet Inc. on the basis of an agreement concluded between you and Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. is your sole contractual partner with respect to equity grants. GSU grants are not guaranteed, are discretionary, are subject to approval by the Alphabet Inc. board of directors or its delegate, the terms of the relevant Alphabet Inc. stock plan, and your grant agreement. They have no impact on statutory payments. Current or past grants do not confer an acquired right.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,211 open Research Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$207–300K/yr
  • California median$174–268K/yr495 salary ranges
  • US median$142–217K/yr1,470 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $254K, is 13% above the California median midpoint ($224K) — in the middle half of Research Scientist salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 738 open Research Scientist jobs in California and 2,211 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
Research Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 6 years (1,141 postings).
Education
1,088 of the 2,211 open Research Scientist jobs (49%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 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.

Prepare for this role

You've read the whole posting — now see how you match it.