Senior AI Safety Researcher
Listed on Alphabet’s official careers site. Listed as of October 13, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there.
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info_outline About the job The AI Safety Protections team within Trust and Safety develops and implements AI-powered solutions to ensure the safety of foundation models, inclduing Gemini, Nano Banana, Veo, Agents, and Robotics. We work with Google DeepMind as well as downstream products such as enterprise (Vertex AI), on-device applications, and more. We are a passionate team of data scientists and machine learning experts dedicated to mitigating risks associated with generative AI.
As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to apply the latest advancements in AI, work with teams across the company to develop cutting edge AI solutions, and protect people from real-world harms. Google's foundation models are getting more capable fast, which can also introduce more severe harms if they're misused or unaligned. We're hiring someone to understand these frontier risks in depth and build safeguards against them.
You will sit between research, model development, and policy. You will turn threat models into evaluations, mitigations, and launch decisions. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
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$159000 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more about benefits at Google .
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