Jeremiah Harmsen

Principal Engineer & Zurich Site Co-Lead, Google DeepMind

Zurich, Switzerland

About

Jeremiah Harmsen leads a team of curiosity driven researchers covering topics including: computer vision, neural radiance fields, ML systems, weather prediction... and more! The team includes research scientists and engineers across Zurich, Berlin, and Amsterdam. Jeremiah joined Google in 2005 and Research & Machine Intelligence in 2011. He has founded efforts such as TensorFlow Hub and TensorFlow Serving. Additionally, he has created educational efforts like the Machine Learning Ninja rotation which is used inside of Google to help grow the next generation of machine learning talent. He is a lead in Brain Research which aims to make fundamental contributions to machine learning through curiosity driven exploration. He is part of teams which span Europe and discover the future of topics from computer vision to weather prediction. Jeremiah received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer engineering (2001), a M.S. degree in electrical engineering (2003), a M.S. degree in mathematics (2005) and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering (2005) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Jeremiah enjoys volleyball and lives with his wife, son and daughter in Zurich, Switzerland.

Experience

  • Google DeepMind (Full-time · 2 yrs 9 mos)
    • Zurich Site Co-lead
      Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

      Acting as a bridge between executive leadership and local Google DeepMinders. Driving site priorities, championing local culture, and representing Google DeepMind to both the wider Google network and the public.

    • Principal Engineer
      Oct 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Leading teams of curiosity driven researchers covering topics including: computer vision, 3d scenes, ML systems, information retrieval... and more! The team includes research scientists, research engineers, and software engineers across Zurich, London, and New York.

  • Google (18 yrs 1 mo)
    • Brain Research Leadership EMEA
      Jul 2021 - Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Leading a team of curiosity driven researchers covering topics including: computer vision, neural radiance fields, ML systems, weather prediction... and more! The team includes research scientists and engineers across Zurich, Berlin, and Amsterdam.

    • Lead of Brain Frameworks EMEA
      Aug 2019 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs

      Focused on creating reusable infrastructure that enables and accelerates research across Google Brain, DeepMind, open source, and more.

    • Lead of Brain Applied Zurich @GoogleAI
      Mar 2017 - Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

      Founder of TensorFlow Hub, lead of Brain Applied Zurich

  • Intern at IDEO
    Jun 2000 - Aug 2000 · 3 mos

  • Intern at ESI
    Jun 1999 - Aug 1999 · 3 mos