Research Scientist, Robotics, DeepMind
About The Position
At Google DeepMind Robotics, the Research Scientist will help integrate AI into the physical world by building foundation models, including advanced vision-language-action (VLA) models that combine Gemini’s world understanding with physical actions for direct robotic control. The work includes models such as Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics On-Device, which can support a broad range of tasks, interact with their environments, demonstrate dexterity, and reason over long, multi-step sequences. The role advances general-purpose robotics across areas including agentic reasoning, real-world understanding, action generalization, human-robot interaction, dexterity, whole-body control, and continual learning. The scientist will collaborate with robotics companies to deploy these capabilities across applications, work with interdisciplinary research teams, and contribute to research intended to deliver broad public benefit while prioritizing safety and ethics.
Requirements
- PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience contributing to research communities or efforts, including publishing papers at conferences such as NeurIPS, CoRL, ICML, or ICLR.
- Experience working with simulators and robots.
Nice To Haves
- Experience training neural networks using large datasets or simulation to improve real robot behavior.
- Experience in robot manipulation.
- Experience with Python programming.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, train, and evaluate large models and algorithms for robotic agents to enable breakthroughs and new robot capabilities.
- Write software to implement research ideas and iterate quickly.
- Participate in research involving learning from simulation, reinforcement learning, learning from demonstrations, vision-language-action models, transformers, video generation, robot control, humanoid robots, and related areas.
- Work effectively with a large collaborative team whose agendas may change to meet ambitious research goals.
- Generate ideas, set up experiments, test hypotheses, and clearly and efficiently report and present research findings internally and externally.
Benefits
- 15% bonus target
- Equity
- Benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
