Finance Subject Matter Expert, AI Models, Evaluations and Data, DeepMind

As a Finance SME at Google DeepMind, you will embed domain expertise in financial workflows within advanced AI systems. You'll build end-to-end benchmarks, deterministic grading rubrics, and verifiable reward signals for multi-step agent tasks across Quantitative Trading, Corporate Finance, and Alternative Asset Management. You will diagnose and repair reasoning traces, collaborating with researchers, engineers, and product managers to advance AI-driven finance capabilities. Your work directly shapes scalable, auditable financial AI workflows with safety and ethics as core priorities.

• bonus target of 20%
• equity
• benefits
• opportunity for location: Mountain View or New York
• collaborative, research-driven environment
• career development in AI finance

• Design and implement end-to-end financial benchmarks for AI agents
• Create atomic, deterministic grading rubrics and evaluation protocols
• Diagnose multi-step agent trajectories and repair near-miss reasoning traces
• Develop verifiable reward signals and domain-specific agent skills
• Collaborate with Research Scientists, Post-Training Engineers, and Product Managers to integrate finance workflows
• Drive improvements in AI-driven FP&A, Audit and Tax domains within finance AI
• Contribute to safety, ethics, and governance considerations in financial AI systems

• 5 years of institutional finance experience in investigative, modeling-intensive roles (Quantitative Trading, Corporate Finance, or Alternative Asset Management)
• Experience with frontier LLMs, coding agents, or AI evaluation pipelines, including structured prompts and tool-use traces
• Experience identifying flaws in AI-generated financial models, backtests, or memos, and translating these errors into generalizable grading rules
• Master's degree in Finance, Economics, or quantitative field
• Strong collaboration across cross-functional teams

• collaborative
• analytical rigor
• strong communication
• Python
• SQL
• frontier LLMs / AI evaluation pipelines