Staff Research Scientist, Google Cloud AI Research
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 30, 2026. First seen by Alion on Dec 19, 2025. Google scores B on the Alion truth index.
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: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Author research papers to share and generate impact of research results across organization and in the research community.
- Assist in research growth by sharing research trends and best practices within the community by reviewing academic papers, and serving on program committees and grant panels.
- Deliver on large portions of a project by defining the data structure, framework, design, and evaluation metrics for research solution development and implementation. Identify timelines and obtain resources needed.
- Identify new and upcoming research areas by interacting with potential external and internal collaborators. Develop long-term research strategy and plans to expand the impact of Google research.
- Identify complex but defined problems/gaps in existing technology and engage stakeholders and leaders to address them.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience with research agendas across multiple teams or projects.
- 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 experience in coding and leading multiple research efforts and influencing research direction.
- 2 years of coding experience in Python, JavaScript, R, Java, or C++.