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Google DeepMind · 10 hours ago

AI Ethics and Safety Policy Researcher

Mountain View, California, US

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$147K/yr - $216K/yr

Google DeepMind is a leading team in artificial intelligence, seeking an AI Ethics and Safety Policy Researcher to join their Responsible Development & Innovation team. The role involves identifying and addressing emerging AI ethics and safety challenges, conducting research, and developing guidelines to ensure technology aligns with the company's AI Principles.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentFoundational AIMachine Learning

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Systematically identify risks associated with emerging and proliferating AI capabilities

Conduct original research on identified challenges, gathering information from a variety of sources, including external and internal experts, academic literature, and industry reports

Design and build operational frameworks for mitigating model risks, converting them into standardized artefacts such as universal training datasets and evaluation protocols

Collaborate with model development teams to help them adopt and apply these frameworks, guiding them in defining project-specific metrics and criteria for significant results

Communicate findings and recommendations to stakeholders, including researchers, engineers, product managers, and executives

Support the teams across GDM in interpreting the frameworks and ensuring that training and evaluation data as appropriate

Work closely with relevant across the organisation to align and update the frameworks to ensure their continued relevance in a rapidly changing environment

Qualification

AI ethicsAI policyResearch skillsPhD in relevant fieldInterdisciplinary teamworkWriting skillsCritical thinkingCreative thinkingCommunication skills

Required

A PhD, or equivalent experience, in a relevant field, such as AI ethics or safety, computer science, social sciences, or public policy

Proven expertise in AI ethics, AI policy or a related field

Demonstrable track record of implementing policies

Strong research and writing skills, evidenced by publications in top journal and conference proceedings

Experience working within interdisciplinary teams

Ability to communicate complex concepts and ideas simply for a range of collaborators

Ability to think critically and creatively about complex ethical issues

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

Google DeepMind

Glassdoor4.5

Google DeepMind aims to research and build safe artificial intelligence system to solve intelligence and advance science and humanity. It is a sub-organization of Google.

Founded in 2010

London, England, GBR

501-1000 employees

https://deepmind.google

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

unknown

2014-01-26Acquired

2011-02-01Series A

Leadership Team

Demis Hassabis

Co-Founder & CEO

Aaron Saunders

VP of Hardware Engineering, Robotics

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