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Research Scientist, Social Simulation and Agents, DeepMind

We are looking for a Research Scientist to develop cutting-edge social simulation techniques powered by large language models. This role focuses on building computational frameworks of human simulations that are (1) accurate and predictive

Company

Google

Location

San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA

Status

Closed

Posted

2026-08-24T21:13:28+00:00

A research scientist role at Google DeepMind building large-language-model simulations of human social behavior. The work covers frameworks that predict real-world opinions and judgments, represent societal diversity, and scale from individuals to societies, plus validation metrics, multimodal environments, and publishing at top AI and social science venues. The posting asks for a PhD in computer science, computational social science, statistics or a related field, two years of published ML or NLP research, and depth in reinforcement learning, multimodal agents or computational social science.