About this role
Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.
We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $181000 - $247000 (USD) + 20% bonus target
Learn more about benefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/).
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in US technology public policy, legislative affairs, or regulatory policy at the federal or state level, including experience with Congress, federal agencies, and state legislatures regarding emerging technology regulation.
- Experience in frontier AI safety, security, and governance issues (such as frontier safety frameworks, model evaluations, red-teaming, compute governance, and alignment).
- Experience analyzing and redlining legislation or regulation, drafting statutory language and policy position papers, and supporting legislative testimony or government briefings.
Preferred qualifications:
- Established relationships with, or demonstrated ability to engage credibly with, senior staff across US Congressional committees, federal executive agencies, state legislative offices, industry coalitions, and policy think tanks.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical AI research concepts for federal and state policymakers and translate legislative realities back to technical research teams.
- Collaborative, proactive, and comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy in a fast-paced, matrixed environment that bridges frontier AI research (DeepMind) and frontline government affairs (GAPP).
- Lead and scale DeepMind and Google's frontier AI policy advocacy across US federal and state jurisdictions.
- Serve as a primary policy POC internally across Google on US Frontier AI Policy issues, and supporting and coordinating external engagement with US federal bodies, including the Administration and the Congress, as well as priority state legislatures, working across broader GAPP teams.
- Drive statutory analysis, legislative redlines, testimony preparation, and technical briefings across high-velocity US state and federal AI bills.
- Execute proactive policy campaigns that translate DeepMind frontier safety approach and research into actionable policy recommendations.
- Support internal AI business units within the Google ecosystems on both proactive and reactive policy areas of distinct interest.