Post-Doctoral Researcher, PhD, 2026 Start (Fixed-Term Contract)

About the job

The Post-doctoral Researcher role is a 12 to 24-month role designed to give you industry experience working on challenging problems together with Google DeepMind India scientists and engineers in India.

As a Post-Doctoral Researcher, you will collaborate with researchers, scientists, and engineers at Google DeepMind India working on fundamental research and applied problems in a wide range of areas in Computing. You will have a wide range of opportunities ranging from conducting fundamental research and exploring their applications in products and services used by billions of people, and conducting research that contributes to human-centered AI and catalyzes AI for social good.

Google DeepMind India addresses challenges that define the technology of today and tomorrow. From conducting fundamental research to influencing product development, our research teams have the opportunity to impact technology used by billions of people every day.

Our teams aspire to make discoveries that impact everyone, and core to our approach is sharing our research and tools to fuel progress in the field we publish regularly in top-tier conferences,academic journals, release projects as open source, and apply research to Google products.

Responsibilities

• Work with research mentors to formulate research projects or novel applications of machine learning aligned with the team's mission.
• Conduct research and publish high quality work.
• Design and execute large-scale experiments, writing high-quality, reusable code, and contributing to a production-ready system using frameworks such as JAX.
• Learn and understand research in machine learning algorithms.
• Understand how to use research to drive design decisions.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• PhD degree in a STEM field (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, or Statistics) or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages: Python, C/C++, or Java, etc. and training deep learning models in frameworks such as JAX, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
• Research experience in machine learning or AI techniques (e.g., open source project(s), campus lab experience, research internship(s), or publication(s)).
• One or more scientific publication submission(s) in AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ICLR).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in a STEM field (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, or Statistics), or equivalent practical experience.
• Ability to work and collaborate across multiple teams and work with ambiguity.