Research Scientist, Robotics, DeepMind

About This Role

Researching and developing advanced AI models for robotics is at the heart of this role, focusing on enabling robots to perceive, plan, think, use tools, and act. The work involves building foundation models like vision-language-action (VLA) models that integrate with physical actions for direct robotic control. This position suits a research scientist passionate about advancing general-purpose robotics and deploying innovations at scale through partnerships with key robotics companies.

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
• 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

Requirements

• 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, CoRL, ICML, ICLR)
• Experience working with simulators and robots

Nice to have:

• Experience training neural networks using large datasets or simulation to improve real robot behavior
• Experience in robot manipulation
• Experience with Python programming

Benefits

• 15% bonus target
• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits

About the Company

Google DeepMind is a pioneering AI lab with interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. They use their technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always their highest priority.