Senior Research Scientist, NLP Full-time

Minimum qualifications:

• PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience leading a research agenda.
• One or more scientific publication submission(s) for conferences, journals, or public repositories.
• Experience with Large Language Models, NLP, or Generative AI.
• Experience with coding.

Preferred qualifications:

• 1 year of experience leading research efforts and influencing other researchers.
• Experience with modern LLMs and generative models, in fields like NLP or multimodality.
• Experience with efficiency, modularity or related topics for LLMs.
• Experience with GenAI fields.

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.

Google Research is building the next generation of intelligent systems for all Google products. To achieve this, we’re working on projects that utilize the latest computer science techniques developed by skilled software developers and research scientists. Google Research teams collaborate closely with other teams across Google, maintaining the flexibility and versatility required to adapt new projects and foci that meet the demands of the world’s fast-paced business needs.

Responsibilities

• Drive project work by defining the data structure, framework, design, and evaluation metrics for research solution development and implementation. Identify timelines and obtain resources needed.
• Identify defined problems/gaps in existing technology and engage stakeholders and leaders to address them.
• Lead the research of technology for improving Large Language Model (LLM) efficiency of performing target capabilities or supporting many capabilities, such as novel architectures and improved pre-training.
• Collaborate with other Research teams to expand efficient LLM technology.
• Collaborate with Google first-party partner teams to deliver new technologies to production.