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Research Scientist, Socioaffective Agents at Google DeepMind

Company Google DeepMind
Location New York City
Salary Competitive salary
Posted Posted on January 2, 2026

Job Description

Opening. This role is for a Research Scientist to lead our efforts in developing novel algorithmic architecture towards the end goal of solving and building Artificial General Intelligence.

What you'll do

As a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, you will make key contributions to Gemini workstreams, and push the frontier of agentic experiences. Your responsibilities will include making key contributions to Gemini workstreams, and pushing the frontier of agentic experiences.

  • Prototyping: Developing new human-AI interaction experiences that waypoint and make tangible a positive future of relational and emotional AIs.
  • Data: Unlocking new multimodal affective capabilities in large models, both pre-training and post-training, focusing on social agents.
  • Models: Improving quality of models for understanding and generation. This may include research on improving tokenizers, training with implicit rewards, and/or general model behavior via fine-tuning.
  • Evals: Better evaluation methods (human, auto raters, automated metrics) to measure quality of open-ended tasks.

What you need

  • PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related field. Open also to backgrounds in Psychology (Social, Developmental, Cognitive), but must have strong Computational emphasis.

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