Research Scientist, Google Cloud AI Research

Mountain View, CA, US Until 9/28/2026 First posted July 30, 2026 Last posted July 30, 2026
Job description

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.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Author research papers to share and generate impact of research results across the team and in the research community. 
  • Help in growing research business across teams by sharing research trends and best practices within the community. 
  • Define the data structure, framework, design, and evaluation metrics for research solution development and implementation under minimal guidance. Identify timelines and obtain resources needed. 
  • Identify new and upcoming research areas by interacting with potential external and internal collaborators. Help in developing long-term research strategy and plans to expand the impact of Google research with some guidance. 
  • Contribute to conducting experiments based on the research question. Develop research prototypes or conduct simulations to further evaluate the impact of research, finalize hypotheses, and refine the research methodology under minimal guidance.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

  • PhD 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.
About this role

Summary

Conducts research, develops prototypes, and publishes findings in AI and machine learning.

Job title

Research Scientist, Google Cloud AI Research

Experience level

doctorate plus

Industry

software

Location requirements

Mountain View, CA, USA; remote work not specified

Salary

$147k–$210k

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

PythonJavaScriptRJavaC++

Preferred skills

PythonJavaScriptRJavaC++research agendas

Specializations

machine learningdeep learningnatural language processingAI
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Mountain View, CA, USA

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