Research Scientist, Google Research

Key Skills

Algorithms, C Programming, C++, Data Analysis, Data Mining, Deep Learning, Design, Digital Innovation, Google Products, Large Language Models - LLMs, Machine learning techniques, Maintenance, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Understanding-NLU, Planning and organization, Prototyping, Python Programming, Software Development

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

• PhD in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in NLP, NLU, Machine Learning, LLMs, or similar areas.
• Experience contributing to research communities including publishing in forums.
• Experience in programming languages (e.g., Python or C/C++).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in innovative research.
• Experience working with a research team.
• Experience in coding.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity.

About the job

As an organization, Google maintains a portfolio of research projects driven by fundamental research, new product innovation, product contribution and infrastructure goals, while providing individuals and teams the freedom to emphasize specific types of work. As a Research Scientist, you'll setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly, managing deadlines and deliverables while applying the latest theories to develop new and improved products, processes, or technologies. From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more.

As a Research Scientist, you'll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

Google Research is building the next generation of intelligent systems for all Google products. To achieve this, we’re working on projects that utilize the latest computer science techniques developed by skilled software engineers and research scientists. Google Research teams collaborate closely with other teams across Google, maintaining the flexibility and versatility required to adapt new projects and foci that meet the demands of the world's fast-paced business needs.

Responsibilities

• Work on multilingual natural language processing for low resource languages projects.
• Develop multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) for South East Asia. Build on existing/in-development datasets, and also add several additional resources.
• Draw on text and audio sources, and integrate acoustic embeddings and grapheme to phoneme conversion.
• Create novel evaluation datasets, compile existing datasets, and incorporate new resources (e.g., parallel datasets, multilingual lexicons).
• Develop algorithms for LLM training and evaluation.