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Design post-training methodologies for autonomous security agents, including reinforcement learning from execution feedback and reward modeling. Build simulated environments and synthetic data pipelines to generate training trajectories, architect multi-step planning systems, and develop evaluation benchmarks for offensive and defensive security tasks. Requires a PhD in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, ML, or equivalent experience; four years with Python and ML frameworks; three years applying ML to cybersecurity; and two years in LLM post-training.

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  • Design and iterate on post-training methodologies for Gemini, including reinforcement learning from execution feedback, multi-step trajectory reward modeling, and supervised fine-tuning on curated security datasets.
  • Build scalable simulated environments and synthetic data pipelines to execute complex security workflows and generate high-signal training trajectories at scale.
  • Architect autonomous agent harnesses capable of multi-step planning, tool orchestration, and decision-making under adversarial conditions.
  • Develop end-to-end evaluation benchmarks that measure frontier capability limits and trajectory fidelity across realistic offensive, defensive, and vulnerability tasks.
  • Transition research innovations into Google's internal defenses and customer products, while contributing to technical reports and ML and security publications.

Minimum qualifications:

  • PhD in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, ML, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of experience in Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow) training, fine-tuning, and evaluating foundation models.
  • 3 years of experience applying ML or automated reasoning to cybersecurity, systems, program analysis, or code generation.
  • 2 years of experience in LLM post-training, including supervised fine-tuning, execution-feedback reinforcement learning, and multi-step trajectory reward modeling.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience architecting autonomous agent systems, focusing on multi-step planning, tool orchestration, reward modeling, and reinforcement learning.
  • Experience building scalable simulated execution environments, evaluation harnesses, or synthetic data pipelines for training and benchmarking foundation models.
  • Deep domain expertise in one or more specialized cybersecurity areas, such as vulnerability discovery and automated patching, offensive security operations (red teaming), or advanced threat detection.
  • Track record of published research at ML or cybersecurity venues, or a demonstrated history of deploying AI systems in production security environments.
  • PhD in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, ML, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of experience in Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow) training, fine-tuning, and evaluating foundation models.
  • 3 years of experience applying ML or automated reasoning to cybersecurity, systems, program analysis, or code generation.
  • 2 years of experience in LLM post-training, including supervised fine-tuning, execution-feedback reinforcement learning, and multi-step trajectory reward modeling.
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AI Research Lab · 500+ Members · Mountain View, CA, United States

Google builds internet, software, cloud, and AI products used by consumers, developers, and organizations. Its portfolio includes Search, YouTube, Android, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, Workspace, Google Cloud, advertising platforms, devices, and Gemini AI products. The company develops large-scale computing infrastructure and research that power information retrieval, communication, productivity, media, navigation, and machine learning. Google is the largest operating business within Alphabet and earns a substantial share of its revenue from digital advertising.

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Workplace
On-site
Job Posted:
3 days ago
Job Type
Full Time
Education
PhD, or equivalent experience
Experience
3-4 years

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