Research Scientist for Gemini Horizon, DeepMind
Mountain View, CAResearch$174–252K/yrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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The Research Scientist will conduct ambitious research to improve Gemini, including its context and memory management, subagent orchestration, and execution of complex long-horizon tasks. The role involves building infrastructure, understanding training dynamics, and developing reinforcement learning algorithms. The scientist will also set up large-scale tests, prototype implementations, design architectures, and share findings with the wider research community.
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Minimum qualifications:
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2 years of experience with machine learning algorithms and tools, or applied ML (e.g., LLM's, generative AI, NLP, recommendations).
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2 years of experience with Generative AI, AI algorithms, and system design.
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2 years of industry experience in applied machine learning/machine learning research.
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2 years of experience with developing machine learning infrastructure, distributed systems or networks.
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2 years of experience in an applied research setting.
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Experience coding in Python or C++.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Engineering/Machine Learning or equivalent.
- Software engineering skills in Python and deep experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., JAX, PyTorch).
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. 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 about benefits at Google. Responsibilities
- Deliver step-change improvements to Gemini through rigorous and ambitious research.
- Improve the models ability to manage its own context and memory natively, instead of relying on the code wrapped around the model (the harness).
- Make Gemini better at subagent orchestration, which is basically memory management through isolation.
- Advance complex long horizon task execution such as for RSI and computer use where we combine low latency asynchronous execution and long horizon reasoning.
- Build novel infrastructure, gaining a deep understanding of training dynamics, and developing novel RL algorithms.
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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$174–252K/yr
- California median$180–270K/yr495 salary ranges
- US median$150–228K/yr1,542 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $213K, is 6% below 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 2 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.
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