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We are looking for highly motivated and innovative Research Scientists to join our team in Bengaluru, with a focus on advancing multilingual, multicultural, and multimodal large language models (LLMs). Your primary responsibility will be to conduct cutting-edge research on Gemini, particularly in the multilingual, multicultural, and multimodal domain encompassing speech, vision, and text. This research has a direct path to impacting billions of users through Google products. This role provides a unique opportunity to contribute to foundational research in multilingual and multimodal LLMs, with a special emphasis on addressing unique challenges in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. You will collaborate with a world-class team at Google DeepMind globally. If you are passionate about shaping the future of human-computer interaction through multilingual and multimodal LLMs and are eager to make a significant impact on users in the APAC region and beyond, we encourage you to apply. Artificial Intelligence has the potential to be one of humanity's most valuable inventions. At Google 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 utilize our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, collaborating with others on critical challenges while ensuring safety and ethics are our highest priorities. This position is within the Languages group at Google DeepMind India, where the focus is on all aspects of LLM development, making impactful contributions to enhance Gemini's multilingual performance. The group's work has also improved various Google products such as Gemini App, Assistant, Search, etc., including foundational contributions to Google Translate's expansion to 110 languages representing over 600 million speakers. As a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, your key responsibilities will include: - Developing and evaluating multilingual, multicultural, and multimodal LLMs, designing, implementing, and evaluating capabilities in Gemini and other frontier models at Google. - Collaborating with a world-class team, working closely with other research scientists, engineers, and product teams across Google DeepMind to foster a collaborative and intellectually stimulating environment. - Contributing to real-world impact, seeing your work contribute to Gemini and other frontier models at Google with applications across various domains, directly influencing the future of Google products and services. - Contributing to the research community by sharing insights and participating in external academic workshops and conferences. The ideal candidate will possess a Ph.D. (or equivalent research experience) in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field, a strong publication record in top-tier AI conferences or journals, and a solid understanding of deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and/or speech processing. Experience with relevant ML frameworks such as JAX, TensorFlow, or PyTorch, along with excellent communication and collaboration skills, are essential. Additionally, experience with multilingual, multicultural, and/or multimodal learning in LLMs, pretraining, post-training techniques, prompt engineering, few-shot learning, and evaluations would be advantageous. Familiarity with large-scale model training and deployment, as well as strong programming skills in Python or similar languages, are also desired qualities in the ideal candidate.,
