Embodied AI Research Scientist, Multisensor Robotics

Google LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind in London is seeking a Research Scientist to advance multisensor robotics, RL/IL/VLA models, and scalable deployment. You will design experiments, prototype architectures, and push the boundaries of embodied AI across real-world tasks.

Collaborating with global teams, you will publish findings and contribute to safety and ethical AI while delivering impactful products and systems at scale.

Qualifications

• PhD in a quantitative field or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of professional research experience in an industrial R&D lab.
• 3 years designing, training, and scaling RL/IL/VLA or multimodal models.
• 2 years optimizing foundation models for production (distillation, pruning, quantization).

Responsibilities

• Architect and train models to expand robotic capabilities and prototype concepts.
• Apply domain expertise in sim-to-real transfer, RL/IL/VLA, and multi-sensory learning techniques.
• Propose novel ideas, address hardware requirements, and communicate results to audiences.

Skills

Reinforcement learning

Imitation learning

Vision-Language-Action

Multimodal models

Education

PhD in robotics/CS/ML or equivalent

5 years industrial R&D experience

Tools

Distillation

Pruning

Post-training quantization

Job description

Google DeepMind in London is seeking a Research Scientist to advance multisensor robotics, RL/IL/VLA models, and scalable deployment. You will design experiments, prototype architectures, and push the boundaries of embodied AI across real-world tasks.

Collaborating with global teams, you will publish findings and contribute to safety and ethical AI while delivering impactful products and systems at scale.