Research Scientist, Robotics, DeepMind

Google
Cambridge, MA, USA

About the job

We believe there are many problems in the world in which robotics could play a significant role in making it easier, faster and safer for people to get things done. We’re looking for roboticists, designers, hardware and software engineers to help us explore these possibilities, develop breakthrough technologies, and build new products that could help millions of people. At Google DeepMind Robotics, we are pioneering the integration of AI into the physical world to power an era of physical agents. By enabling robots to perceive, plan, think, use tools, and act, we empower them to solve increasingly tasks.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, train, and evaluate large models and algorithms for robotic agents to make breakthroughs and unlock new robot capabilities.

Write software to implement research ideas and iterate quickly.

Leverage your expertise to participate in a wide variety of research, including learning from simulation, reinforcement learning, learning from demonstrations, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, transformers, video generation, robot control, humanoid robots, and more.

Work effectively with a large collaborative team with changing agendas to meet ambitious research goals.

Generate creative ideas, set up experiments, and test hypotheses to report and present research findings clearly and efficiently both internally and externally.

Qualifications

Minimum

PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience contributing to research communities or efforts, including publishing papers at conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR).

Experience working with simulators and real-world robots.

Preferred

Experience with AI technology and all of its possibilities.

Experience with Python programming.

Experience in robotics.