Research Scientist, Gemini for Android XR Devices (Munich, Germany)

Research Scientist, Gemini for Android XR Devices

About the job

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Zürich, Switzerland; Munich, Germany.

Minimum qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with Computer Vision, Generative AI, or Large Language Models.
• One of more scientific publication submission(s) for conferences, journals, or public repositories (such as CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.).
• Experience in machine learning, specifically for Generative AI and video applications.

Preferred qualifications

• 2 years of coding experience.
• 1 year of experience owning and initiating research agendas.
• Experience working on multimodal understanding problems, including image or video understanding tasks.
• Experience working with egocentric data and egocentric problems.
• Experience working in an industry or academic research lab, focusing on multiple aspects of the "research to product" pipeline.

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.

In this role, you will partner with the Gemini modeling team to make Gemini a powerful AI assistant for existing and upcoming XR devices. Your work will cover multiple aspects of model development and improvement. You will collaborate with data collection teams to source, annotate, and format valuable data, and work to improve overall model performance, robustness, and reliability through advanced training, deployment, and customization techniques. You will possess expertise in developing and improving LLMs for video understanding, ideally with an egocentric focus.

Responsibilities

• Define the data structure, framework, design, and evaluation metrics for research solution development and implementation under minimal guidance.
• Identify timelines and obtain resources needed.
• Work on the integration of Gemini into XR products.
• Design and implement customization layers to enable the next generation of immersive XR experiences powered by Gemini.
• Work together with research teams to highlight model limitations and improve performance in key areas critical for XR applications like spatial and temporal understanding.
• Develop expertise on the full data collection, filtering and pre-processing pipeline to contribute with freshly sourced data to improve the quality of models in egocentric video understanding applications.
• Establish and maintain relationships with main stakeholders and keep recurring updates on the advancements of the project, making sure that their expectations are aligned to the research and engineering work.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.