Research Scientist, Human Data for Advanced Robotics

Google LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind seeks a Research Scientist to advance human-centered robotics through reinforcement learning and multimodal modeling. You will design and run large-scale experiments, prototype architectures, and integrate human data with robotic systems, collaborating with global teams.

The role emphasizes deploying ideas to real-world robotic platforms and sharing results with the broader research community, while upholding safety and ethics priorities.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with reinforcement learning and imitation learning.
• Experience with vision, vision-language, video, and other multimodal models.
• Experience with multimodal generative modeling, training and inference.
• Experience with capture methodologies and dataset design.
• Experience working with simulators and real-world robots, esp. dexterous manipulation, and multimodal sensing.
• A passion for bringing research to real-world robotic systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, train and evaluate large models and algorithms for robotic agents, making breakthroughs and unlocking new robot capabilities.
• Write software to implement research ideas and iterate quickly, working effectively with a large collaborative team with fast-paced agendas to meet ambitious research goals.
• Develop methodologies and design and conduct experiments for incorporating scalable data sources, especially human data with or without capture devices into our robotics foundation models.
• Leverage broader expertise to participate in a wide variety of research, including learning from simulation, reinforcement learning, learning from demonstrations, vision-language-action models, transformers, video generation, robot control, humanoid robots and more.
• Report and present research findings clearly and efficiently both internally and externally.

Skills

Reinforcement learning

Imitation learning

Multimodal models

Vision-language

Robot manipulation

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google DeepMind seeks a Research Scientist to advance human-centered robotics through reinforcement learning and multimodal modeling. You will design and run large-scale experiments, prototype architectures, and integrate human data with robotic systems, collaborating with global teams.

The role emphasizes deploying ideas to real-world robotic platforms and sharing results with the broader research community, while upholding safety and ethics priorities.