Research Scientist, Gemini for Android XR Devices

Google seeks a Research Scientist in Zürich to enhance Gemini for Android XR devices, focusing on LLMs, video understanding, and spatial-temporal model improvements.

The company is looking for a specialist to collaborate with the Gemini modeling team, aiming to transform Gemini into a robust AI assistant for current and future extended reality hardware. The role involves tackling complex challenges across machine learning, data mining, NLP, and system performance to integrate AI deeply into immersive products.

Responsibilities

• Establish data structures, frameworks, and evaluation metrics to guide the development of research solutions.
• Integrate the Gemini model into XR products and create customization layers that enhance immersive user experiences.
• Partner with research groups to boost model capabilities in spatial and temporal understanding for XR applications.
• Build and refine pipelines for collecting, filtering, and pre-processing data, with a focus on egocentric video understanding.
• Manage stakeholder relationships to ensure alignment between research objectives and engineering outcomes.
• Conduct large-scale testing and rapidly deploy promising ideas into production environments.
• Publish and share research findings with the broader scientific community.

Requirements

• Proven expertise in developing and refining Large Language Models, particularly for video understanding tasks with an egocentric perspective.
• Strong ability to handle model development, including improvements to robustness and reliability.

What the company offers

• Flexibility to prioritize specific types of work within a diverse portfolio of research projects.
• Chance to collaborate with partner universities and technical institutes around the globe.

About the company

Google sustains a broad portfolio of research initiatives that are driven by fundamental scientific inquiry, new product innovation, product contributions, and infrastructure goals.

• The organization supports a wide range of research projects focused on fundamental research, product innovation, and infrastructure.