Research Scientist, Reinforcement Learning, DeepMind

_corporate_fare_ DeepMind _place_ London, UK

**Minimum qualifications:**

+ PhD in Machine Learning, or equivalent practical experience.
+ 2 years of experience implementing algorithms within research codebases.
+ Experience conducting research in reinforcement learning, including contributions to peer-reviewed publications.
+ Experience designing and executing end-to-end experiments, including setup, analysis, and interpretation.

**Preferred qualifications:**

+ Experience with advanced reinforcement learning topics, such as RL for sequence models, post-training, preference-based learning, or agentic systems.
+ Familiarity with modern research stacks (e.g., JAX/Flax or PyTorch) and experience scaling experiments.
+ Strong experimental judgment, including selecting appropriate baselines and designing insightful ablations.
+ Comfort with scaling methodologies, evaluation tec...