# Ben Caine

> Research Engineer at Google DeepMind

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/bencaine

I'm a Research Engineer at Google DeepMind leading Gemini Vision Post-Training (send an image or video to our models at aistudio.google.com). Prior to that I spent 5+ years working on Autonomous Vehicles both at Google Brain doing applied research with Waymo, and at a startup building a prototype L3 autonomous driving system for a major auto manufacturer.

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Research Engineer @ Google DeepMind
Jan 2024 – Present | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Staff Research Engineer @ Google DeepMind
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Cambridge, MA
Gemini Multimodal + Instruction Tuning

### Senior Research Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Cambridge, MA
Google DeepMind

### Research Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Google Brain

### AI Resident @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ NextDroid
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Boston, MA
Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics Mapping, and Systems/Software Engineering for Autonomous Vehicles.

### Research Assistant @ Northeastern University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Boston, MA
Part of the Machine Learning group. Working on modeling time series physiological data to develop techniques to model emotional response.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Vessel
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco
Built web services and web UIs, developed computer vision algorithms, and built the first recommendation service for a fledgling short form video platform.

Technologies Used: Python, Coffeescript, React.js, Flask, OpenCV, Scikit-learn, Numpy, Postgres, Redis, Redshift, Amazon Web Services, Docker, Gephi

### Tech Lead @ IDEA: Northeastern University's Venture Accelerator
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Boston, MA
Provided technical direction for IDEA. Was responsible for managing the redesign of our public facing website and reworking our internal workflows as they relate to data collection and analytics.

Technologies used: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Salesforce, MySQL, Wordpress, HTML, CSS

### Software Engineering Co-op @ Cogito Corp.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Boston, MA
Developed features for a real time speech analytic platform used by large health care organizations to provide instant visualizations, metrics, and feedback of phone conversations.

Technologies used: Java, MongoDB

### Software Engineering Co-op @ Smartleaf
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, MA
Developed both front and back end features for a Ruby on Rails web application that provides portfolio management and analytic services used by wealth management professionals and banks to manage over $50 Billion in assets.

Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL, Oracle, Linux, Git


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Engineering
Northeastern University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bcaine

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Last updated: 2026-03-31