Evals Engineer, Polaris, DeepMind (Fixed-Term Contract)

DeepMind

Mountain View, CA, United StatesYesterday

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Key details

Salary
$350K–$525K/yr
Location
Mountain View, CA, United States
Work style
Onsite
Level
Mid level
Job type
Contract
Function
Software engineering
Focus area
other
Posted
Yesterday

Skills

ai coding agentsdata analysisdata miningdata pipelinesgemininatural language processingprototyping

About the role

About the job

At Google, research-focused Software Engineers are embedded throughout the company, allowing them to setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly. Ideas may come from internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, engineers work on real-world problems including artificial intelligence, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. But you stay connected to your research roots as an active contributor to the wider research community by partnering with universities and publishing papers.

Engineers on the Polaris team design tasks that test Gemini’s ability to complete software engineering work. A task is essentially an in-depth examination that evaluates how well Gemini performs in a specific, complex scenario. The primary components of a task are: a prompt that instructs Gemini what to do and a grader or rubric that assigns a numerical score to the model’s attempted solution.

Our team, Polaris, is distinguished primarily by how much manual effort we put into building individual eval tasks. Rather than generating a large number of tasks using a synthetic data pipeline, engineers on the Polaris team prioritize creating a smaller number of tasks that more closely capture the realism and complexity of real-world software engineering. A single well-designed task typically takes a Polaris engineer roughly one week to complete, from the initial ideation stage to final approval.

There are no education or degree requirements for this role.

12-Month Fixed-Term Contract Compensation Range:

  • Base Salary Range: $350,000 – $525,000

  • Total Compensation Range: $550,000 – $1,100,000 (includes additional sign-on bonus and 15% target annual bonus).

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.

Responsibilities

  • Create tasks that will be used to measure Gemini’s ability to perform long-horizon software engineering tasks.
  • Evaluate weaknesses of our latest AI models, and develop data and pipelines for improving Gemini.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Experience using AI coding agents.
  • Experience in data analysis and problem solving.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience participating in competitive programming, mathematics competitions (e.g., IMO, USAMO, Putnam, or IOI).
  • Experience using AI coding agents.
  • Experience in data analysis and problem solving.

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