Nuclear Expert, DeepMind

Job description

Minimum qualifications

PhD in plasma physics, nuclear engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Experience collaborating with US national labs or agencies like IAEA, NNSA, or DARPA, or similar government/academic consortia. Experience in research/policy in stockpile stewardship, nonproliferation, arms control, or threat reduction. Technical experience in high energy density physics, inertial confinement fusion, implosion dynamics, criticality, missiles, or reactor operations, nuclear infrastructure.

Preferred qualifications

Experience working in AI safety, evaluations, red teaming, or applied AI/ML research at a national laboratory, academic institution, or industry setting. Expertise in computational modeling, scientific computing (Python, C++), radiation hydrodynamics, and MHD. Experimental and computational ICF/HEDP experience at major laser user facilities (e.g., NIF, JLF), diagnostic inverse problems relevant to weapons development. Ability to design evaluations and mitigations that are demonstrably unclassified and non-export controlled by developing dual use science proxies for weapons topics.

Commitment to serving a global user base and promoting a fundamentally safe technological ecosystem. About the job Google invites applications from highly qualified physicists and nuclear engineers for the position of Nuclear Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high-yield Explosives (CBRNE) team within the Responsible Development and Innovation (ReDI) team. The successful candidate will be hired for a Research Scientist position serving as a technical expert responsible for evaluating and mitigating safety risks of frontier AI models (primarily but not limited to LLMs) in the nuclear domain; specifically, model assistance in fission, fusion, and thermonuclear weapons proliferation, radiation hydrodynamics, Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), etc. in a demonstrably unclassified and non-export controlled manner.