At Google 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 are looking for a Research Developer to join our Frontier AI Incubation team in Montreal, QC, Canada.

Responsibilities

- Design, train, and optimize foundational algorithms and ML systems (e.g., personalized model adaptation, agentic workflows, contextual memory architectures, dynamic prompt optimization, and multimodal reasoning).
- Lead end-to-end technical development from algorithmic design and experimental prototyping to production-grade architecture and scaled serving infrastructure.
- Partner directly with Google development and product teams to integrate and harden core technologies within production environments (e.g., Project Helix, agent workspaces, and intelligent system integrations).
- Formulate novel automated and human-in-the-loop evaluation methodologies to measure capability gains, latency/compute efficiency, alignment, and personalization fidelity.

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in machine learning, algorithm design, data structures, or distributed software systems.




- 2 years of experience programming in Python or C++.
- 1 year of experience taking technical projects or machine learning systems from conceptual formulation to implementation and deployment.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience developing, fine-tuning, or optimizing foundation models including techniques such as reinforcement learning from human/AI feedback, supervised fine-tuning, parameter-effective tuning, or inference optimization.
- Experience or interest in personalization, adaptive systems, user modeling, retrieval-augmented generation, or agentic memory architectures.
- Experience with machine learning frameworks and large-scale model training or serving infrastructure.
- Experience collaborating across research and product boundaries to co-design technical architectures.
- Experience in scientific analysis, technical problem-solving, and technical communication.

Compensation

Canada: $185,000 - $190,000 CAD + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, or equivalent. 2 years of experience in machine learning, algorithm design, data structures, or distributed software systems. 2 years of experience programming in Python or C++. 1 year of experience taking ML projects from concept to deployment.

📌 Research Developer, Frontier AI Incubation (Montreal)
🏢 DeepMind
📍 Montreal