Research Scientist: Human Data for Robotic Intelligence

WeAreTechWomen; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind is seeking a Research Scientist to design, train, and deploy large-scale robotic models that span reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and multimodal sensing. You will contribute to transitions from lab experiments to real-world robotic systems, applying cutting-edge AI research to production-like challenges.

You’ll collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, publish findings, and help push the boundaries of AI for robots, with a focus on scalable data sources and real-world

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, a 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.

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

Vision-language

Video

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google DeepMind is seeking a Research Scientist to design, train, and deploy large-scale robotic models that span reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and multimodal sensing. You will contribute to transitions from lab experiments to real-world robotic systems, applying cutting-edge AI research to production-like challenges.

You’ll collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, publish findings, and help push the boundaries of AI for robots, with a focus on scalable data sources and real-world