# Jacob Burnim

> Google DeepMind

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jacobburnim

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco, CA

### Principal Software Engineer / Director of Engineering @ Sift Science
Jan 2012 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA
- Tech Lead for Sift's Content Abuse team -- using large-scale machine learning to catch users with fraudulent and abusive content.
 - Managed the engineering team (Director of Engineering) from 2015 to 2016.
 - Managed half the engineering team (Tech Lead / Manager) from 2014 to 2015.
 - Third engineer hired at Sift.

### Graduate Student Researcher @ UC Berkeley
Jan 2007 – Jan 2012

### Research Intern @ Microsoft Research
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008
Google Search Quality, Core Ranking team.  Worked on a large-scale machine learning system for use in Google web search.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005
Gmail advertising team.

### Intern, Symantec Research Labs @ Symantec
Jan 2004 – Jan 2004


## Education
### Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### B.S. in Mathematics & Computer Science
Caltech


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jburnim
- Portfolio: http://jburnim.github.io
- GitHub: https://github.com/jburnim
- Portfolio: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4cIAgvQAAAAJ

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Last updated: 2026-04-12