Senior Research Scientist, Kaggle

2 Months ago • 2 Years + • Artificial Intelligence

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Research Scientist at Kaggle (Google), you'll work on expanding Kaggle's competitions platform to host LLM benchmarks and community evaluations. You'll collaborate with Google DeepMind and external researchers, contribute to developing and deploying new research methods and algorithms for AI/ML, mentor junior engineers, publish research, and collaborate with product leadership. Responsibilities include creating the next generation of benchmarking and evaluation methods for AI/ML, particularly focusing on LLMs and generative AI. The role involves working on Kaggle's research priorities, helping to innovate its platform, and establishing Kaggle Research as a leader in building trust through community validation of AI. The Google Cloud AI Research team addresses AI challenges across various industries.
Must have:
  • PhD in CS or related field
  • Scientific publications
  • Python coding experience
  • LLM and GenAI experience
  • Benchmarking and evaluation expertise
Good to have:
  • 2+ years Python coding experience
  • Research agenda ownership experience

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • One or more scientific publication submission(s) for conferences, journals, or public repositories.
  • Coding experience in Python, JavaScript, R, Java, or C++.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 2 years of coding experience in Python, JavaScript, R, Java, or C++.
  • 1 year of experience owning and initiating research agendas.
  • Demonstrated expertise in bechmarking, evaluation, and empirical methods.
  • Experience with LLMs and GenAI models and methods.

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.

In this role, you will get to work on Kaggle’s Research priorities, help innovate in Kaggle’s leading platform for ML competitions, datasets, and models, and establish Kaggle Research as the leader in building earned trust through community validation of AI.

The Google Cloud AI Research team addresses AI challenges motivated by Google Cloud’s mission of bringing AI to tech, healthcare, finance, retail and many other industries. We work on a range of unique problems focused on research topics that maximize scientific and real-world impact, aiming to push the state-of-the-art in AI and share findings with the broader research community. We also collaborate with product teams to bring innovations to real-world impact that benefits our customers.

Responsibilities

  • Work with the Kaggle Competitions team to expand Kaggle's competitions platform to host and run LLM Benchmarks and community evaluations.
  • Collaborate with Google DeepMind Researchers and external researchers to create and host valuable AI evaluations and benchmarks on Kaggle.
  • Contribute to the development and deployment of new research methods and algorithms for AI and ML. Mentor and guide junior engineers on the team.
  • Publish research papers and present findings at conferences and workshops. Collaborate with engineering, design, and product leadership to improve Kaggle's product for Research priorities.
  • Collaborate with other members of the Kaggle Research team to create the next generation of benchmarking and evaluation methods and structures for AI / ML, with a particular focus on LLMs and generative AI.

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