Embodied AI Robotics Research Scientist

Google; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind is seeking a Research Scientist to advance embodied AI, developing intelligent systems for meaningful physical world interaction and bridging theory with real-world deployment.

You will design experiments, prototype implementations, and scale tests across vision-language-action models, RL/IL, and multi-sensory data, collaborating with global teams.

Join a pioneering AI lab focused on safety, ethics, and high-impact product innovation for billions of users.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent practical experience in robotics, CS or ML.
• 5 years professional R&D in industrial labs.
• 3 years designing/training RL/IL or multimodal architectures incl. VLA or video models.
• 2 years optimizing foundation models for production with distillation/pruning/quantization for on-device constraints.

Responsibilities

• Architect and train models to expand robotic capabilities and prototype concepts.
• Apply sim-to-real transfer, imitation learning, VLA models and multisenory learning with optimization.
• Propose novel ideas, address hardware requirements, and communicate results to stakeholders.

Skills

Reinforcement learning

Imitation learning

Multimodal models

On-device optimization

Distillation

Model pruning

Quantization

Education

PhD in quantitative field

Tools

Distillation

Model pruning

Post-training quantization

Job description

Google DeepMind is seeking a Research Scientist to advance embodied AI, developing intelligent systems for meaningful physical world interaction and bridging theory with real-world deployment.

You will design experiments, prototype implementations, and scale tests across vision-language-action models, RL/IL, and multi-sensory data, collaborating with global teams.

Join a pioneering AI lab focused on safety, ethics, and high-impact product innovation for billions of users.