Research Scientist, Memory, Reasoning and Continual Learning, DeepMind

DeepMind Toronto, ON, Canada

Job Overview

We are seeking a Research Scientist to contribute to foundational research in Memory, Reasoning, and Continual Learning. The role involves designing experiments, developing novel architectures, and publishing results in top-tier venues. Collaboration with cross‑functional engineering teams to build scalable infrastructure is a key responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Initiate and lead novel research directions, applying insights from machine learning, NLP, RL, and computational neuroscience to advance long‑context attention mechanisms, Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG), continual learning architectures, and multi‑step reasoning frameworks.
• Design and execute end‑to‑end experiments, proposing and testing hypotheses to better align model‑based agents, mitigate catastrophic forgetting, and improve sample efficie...