{"id":3405925,"url":"https://alion.io/job/google-deepmind-lead-research-engineer-bioresilience","title":"Lead Research Engineer, Bioresilience","company":{"id":4,"name":"Google DeepMind","domain":"deepmind.google","url":"https://alion.io/company/deepmind","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Career site","truth_index":null},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":115000,"max_usd":222000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":28},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Fine-tuning","optional":false},{"name":"Gemini","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-28T16:09:27Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-28","last_verified_at":"2026-11-02T06:00:06Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"About the job\nAt 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.\nAs a part of the Lead Research Engineer, you will join the Bioresilience Program (https://deepmind.google/blog/our-approach-to-bioresilience/) within DeepMind Impact Accelerator. You will lead development and deployment of applications leveraging frontier AI and generative models.\nIn this role, you will collaborate with Biosecurity, GenAI, and Alphabet partners like Google Research, Cloud, and Isomorphic Labs, build solutions for biological prevention, detection, and response. You will translate AI breakthroughs into practical tools for pathogen detection, crop resilience, and medical countermeasures.\nYour role requires expertise in life sciences, computational biology, or biosecurity alongside strong software engineering leadership to build products with state-of-the-art GenAI.\nJoin Google DeepMind to advance AI development, strengthen global biological resilience, and safeguard public health.Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. 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Our global teams offer varied learning opportunities and career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.\nResponsibilities\nPartner with GDI, research leadership, external authorities (biosecurity organizations, institutes, public health bodies), and cross-functional teams to navigate ambiguity, understand real-world bioresilience challenges, and set program objectives.\nDevelop 0-to-1 solutions and workflows using internal platforms to build agents powered by foundation models such as Gemini, AlphaFold, and AlphaGenome, while curating specialized biological datasets, designing domain evaluations, and fine-tuning models to maximize real-world performance.\nSynthesize partner insights, edge cases, and deployment signals to inform future frontier model development and biological safety safeguards.\nAdvocate best practices for safe GenAI deployment, demonstrating peak frontier model capabilities to solve high-impact biological problems end-to-end.\nLead a team of software and research engineers, fostering an environment, developing talent, and partnering with leadership to prioritize high-impact opportunities.\nQualifications\nMinimum qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.\n8 years of experience in software development.\n5 years of experience in a technical leadership role; 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