Eval builder Ken joins Google DeepMind as forward deployed engineer to co-design benchmarks
osanseviero · x · 2026-10-22
Ken (@local0ptimist), known in the evals community, announces he has joined Google DeepMind as a forward deployed engineer, partnering with startups and researchers across the ecosystem to co-design benchmarks — and inviting anyone building interesting evals to get in touch. HF's osanseviero welcomed him to the team.
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