Research Scientist, Visual Language and Multimodal Modeling
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Job Description
About Google’s Devices & Services Team:
Google’s Devices & Services team blends Google AI, software, and hardware to create user-friendly experiences. They focus on researching, designing, and developing new technologies and hardware to enhance user interaction with computing, making it faster, seamless, and more powerful. Their work encompasses various areas, including finding new ways to capture and sense the world, advancing form factors, and improving interaction methods, all with the goal of improving people’s lives through technology.
About the Research Scientist Role:
As a Research Scientist, Visual Language and Multimodal Modeling at Google, you’ll be part of a research portfolio encompassing fundamental research, new product innovation, product contribution, and infrastructure goals. The role offers flexibility in emphasizing specific types of work. You will:
• Develop and deploy: Setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly, managing deadlines and deliverables. You’ll apply the latest theories to create new and improved products, processes, or technologies. This involves creating experiments, prototyping implementations, and designing new architectures to solve real-world problems. These problems span various computer science fields, including machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, compiler improvement for mobile platforms, and core search functionalities.
• Contribute to the research community: Actively share and publish your findings, contributing to the wider research community. You’ll draw inspiration from internal projects and collaborate with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes globally.
• Lead and collaborate: The role involves mentoring junior team members, driving progress, solving problems, and contributing to a deeper expertise and applied knowledge within the relevant area. You’ll also define research agendas, data structures, frameworks, designs, and evaluation metrics for research solutions. You will identify timelines and secure necessary resources. Further, you’ll identify emerging research areas, interact with potential collaborators, and help develop long-term research strategies and plans.
• Conduct experiments and refine methodology: You will conduct experiments based on research questions, develop research prototypes or conduct simulations to evaluate research impact, finalize hypotheses, and refine research methodologies. You’ll also help grow research business across teams by sharing research trends and best practices. You will author research papers to disseminate research results within the team and the wider research community.
