Senior Systems Engineer, Gemini Robotics

DeepMind • Cambridge, MA

34d • $156,000 - $229,000

About The Position

We are looking for Systems Engineers to join the Robotics team whose mission is to build "Embodied AI" - a robot brain capable of whole-body, dexterous, general and useful physical actions to improve the lives of billions of people in the physical world. As a Robotics Systems Engineer, you will engage in a variety of challenging projects, from inventing and prototyping robotic systems in laboratory settings to validating them in real-world scenarios. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse, multi-functional team dedicated to advancing the field of robotics.

Requirements

• Master's degree or PhD in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, with a specific focus on robotic manipulation or complex electromechanical systems.
• 10+ years of experience defining system architectures, executing complex trade studies, and driving hardware strategies from concept to validation.
• Proven track record of effectively synthesizing complex technical data into clear written narratives to build consensus and seek alignment across audiences and executives.
• Proven track record of first-principles approach to engineering, with the ability to go from the fundamentals of physics and control theory to building and evaluating novel multimodal technologies.

Nice To Haves

• Strong knowledge of robotic system design, including kinematics, dynamics, control algorithms, and perception systems.
• Experience in hardware-software co-design for multi-modal sensing; adept at optimizing compute architectures for real-time local processing (FPGA/MCU) and high-level decision-making.
• Familiarity with AI/ML integration, sensor fusion, and autonomous decision-making systems.
• Familiarity with system simulation tools such as Mujoco, NVIDIA Isaac SIm, Gazebo, or similar robotics simulators or robot simulation environments.
• Familiarity with embedded systems, microcontrollers, FPGAs, and high-performance computing platforms.

Responsibilities

• Multi-Modal Trade Studies: Directed complex trade studies across competing physics domains (e.g., optical, acoustic, electromagnetic) to define sensor architectures for high-ambiguity, cutting-edge applications.
• Strategic Hardware Definition: Synthesized data from prototype testing and theoretical modeling to down-select sensing modalities for unprecedented use-cases, resolving high-level system ambiguity.
• Complex Decision Making: Orchestrated the selection of sensor suites for frontier applications, systematically eliminating options through rapid prototyping to identify viable paths beyond current industry standards.
• Advanced Systems Modeling: Construct dynamic models using expert-level numerical tools (e.g., MATLAB, Python) to analyze first-principle physics, optimizing performance across friction, actuation, and thermal domains.
• Systems Engineering & Integration: Drive the full lifecycle of requirements generation and Interface Control Documents (ICDs), proactively resolving integration conflicts to ensure seamless operation across hardware and software boundaries.
• Rapid Prototyping & Validation: Execute hands-on evaluation of emerging technologies within agile teams, validating theoretical performance through physical testing to accelerate technology readiness and adoption.
• Cross-Domain Leadership: Navigate seamlessly across diverse software and hardware domains to distill complex technical analyses into clear strategies, facilitating alignment among stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Regulatory Compliance: Integrate critical industry standards (e.g., ISO/TS 15066, ANSI/RIA R15.08) into the design architecture to ensure safety and certification readiness for manufacturing and consumer environments.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree