Research Lead, Conversational AI

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, SQL, Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in natural language processing (NLP) research and in software engineering, including full-stack development.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science.
• Ability to drive innovation and impact.
• Passion for leading and communicating with teams.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

In this role, you will lead the research of a high impact project in the domain of conversational dialogues.

Our team is an applied research team that innovates and extends the platform capabilities of human machine dialogues, and the team works to suggest and develop use cases based on those platform capabilities. We partner with leading Google applications to develop and ship the use cases, to create strategic impact for Google in the domain of Conversational AI.

At Google, our users come first, and the Systems Infrastructure team is at the heart of that promise. We build the technologies that transform the way we think about doing business. Whether working on our cloud systems, researching the latest in computer technology or keeping Google's internal systems humming, Googlers and users alike rely on us to keep things running. We're back-end experts: protecting your privacy and ensuring your security.

Responsibilities

• Conduct applied research in NLP/Conversational AI and develop Conversational AI platform capabilities.
• Develop Conversational AI use cases in collaboration with Product teams based on platform capabilities.
• Lead the research direction of a team of Applied Researchers.
• Lead collaborations with Product and Infrastructure teams.