Research Engineer,

Applied
Mountain View, US

About us Our Applied team collaborates closely with a wide variety of teams across
Google / Alphabet, leveraging DeepMind expertise to deploy advanced
machine learning algorithms with the goal of improving Alphabet products
and services. We are a driven, collaborative, diverse team based in
Mountain View. Our current engagements include teams in Cloud, Android,
Assistant, Youtube and Maps. We collaborate closely with DeepMind's and
Google's Research teams on several projects. Each project typically
consists of a team of engineers working closely with our product partners
and with our researchers, product managers and program managers.

The role You’ll work in one of our machine learning project teams. Each project
differs in its specifics, but they tend to involve significant experimentation
in close collaboration with our partner teams. Common phases include
understanding our partner’s objectives, stakeholders, products, constraints,
key metrics, and systems; gathering, transforming, and analysing data;
proposing, building, evaluating, and debugging practical machine learning
models and algorithms; integrating our pipelines, models and predictions
into production serving systems; running and analyzing experiments and
iterating based on outcomes.
Some of our current projects are focusing on the areas below so
experience in any of these is highly beneficial:
● Natural Language Generation/Understanding
● Multimodal Understanding
● Causal/Counterfactual modeling
● Time Series Forecasting
● Meta Learning
● Multitask Learning
● Graph Neural Networks

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 Research Engineer,
Applied Projects

We highly value strong ML research engineers who are willing to help out
About you with whatever moves our projects forward. You should be flexible in
adapting to changing requirements and able to cope with and reduce
ambiguity. An ability to quickly understand, augment, test, and debug
unfamiliar systems is valuable.

● MSc/PhD degree in computer science, mathematics, applied stats,

machine learning or similar OR BSc and several years proven
experience in an engineering role in industry
● Strong Software Engineering experience - experience working on
large-scale ML projects highly beneficial
● Strong knowledge and experience of Python and/or C++
● Proven knowledge of machine learning and/or statistics, knowledge
of Tensorflow or similar ML frameworks
● Proven experience working in industry, working on projects from
proof-of-concept through to implementation highly beneficial

Nice to haves:
● Experience in applying experimental ideas to applied problems
● Cross functional collaboration experience
● Prior experience collaborating with researchers
● Prior experience working with product teams

Competitive Salary Applies

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committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race,
religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital,
domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity,
pregnancy, maternity or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any
other basis as protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or
additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let
us know.