
Staff Research Scientist, Gemini Research, DeepMind
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The Staff Research Scientist will invent machine learning architectures, optimizers, and training methods, and build systems that enable Gemini to propose and test changes to its training stack. The role combines original research with full-stack engineering and serves as the final technical verifier of AI-generated ideas, carrying validated advances into next-generation Gemini models.
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Minimum qualifications:
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PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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4 years of experience with research agendas across multiple teams or projects.
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Experience working with deep learning frameworks (e.g., JAX/Flax, PyTorch) for distributed systems and accelerator clusters.
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One or more scientific publication submission(s) for conferences, journals, or public repositories.
Preferred qualifications:
- 2 years of experience in coding and leading multiple research efforts and influencing research direction.
About the job
Just as grading olympiad proofs takes someone who can solve olympiad problems, judging an AI-proposed change to a frontier training algorithm takes a researcher who could have invented it. In this role, you are that researcher.
You will invent new machine learning (ML) architectures, optimizers, and training methods, and build the systems that let Gemini propose, implement, and test such changes on its own. As the team's final technical verifier, you will decide which AI-generated ideas are real advances and carry the winners into next-generation Gemini models.
In this deep individual-contributor role, you will combine original research in ML algorithm and architecture design with engineering across the full stack, from model code and accelerator kernels to distributed training and evaluation.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 varied learning opportunities and 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
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Invent, implement, and scale new machine learning (ML) algorithms, such as architectures, optimizers, training objectives, and recipes.
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Design and build automated research systems in which Gemini proposes, codes, and evaluates changes to its own training stack, moving toward a model that designs its successor.
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Serve as the final verifier for AI-proposed algorithm changes, reproduce results, design decisive ablations across model scales, rule out confounds such as evaluation leakage or unequal tuning budgets, and decide what moves forward.
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Build and own lean, high-performance training and evaluation code (JAX on Tensor Processing Units, with custom kernels where needed) allowing researchers and AI agents can test ideas at meaningful scale.
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Partner with Gemini pre-training, post-training, and infrastructure teams to land validated improvements in production models, and share results through internal talks.
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How this job compares
Set against the 2,289 open Research Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$207–300K/yr
- California median$180–270K/yr495 salary ranges
- US median$150–228K/yr1,542 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $254K, is 12% above the California median midpoint ($226K) — in the middle half of Research Scientist salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 713 open Research Scientist jobs in California and 2,289 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Research Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,264 postings).
- Education
- 1,201 of the 2,289 open Research Scientist jobs (52%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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