Robotics AI Scientist — Pre-Training & Data Quality

Google Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind in London, UK seeks a Research Scientist to advance robotics pre-training and data quality for foundation models. You will design experiments, manage large multimodal datasets, and push data pipelines toward robust real-world robotics deployments.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, publish findings, and contribute to scalable training methods with emphasis on robot policy training, data labeling, and benchmarking.

Qualifications

• PhD in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with algorithmic architectures, data sources, and training/inference for generative multimodal models in robotics.
• Experience optimizing models and systems, including performance tuning, experimentation, and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Drive data quality, acquisition, labeling strategies, and oversee mixture optimization for robotics foundation models.
• Coordinate training runs, improve training recipes, and hill-climb model performance against benchmarks.
• Build and maintain software tools and processes to iterate on research ideas and verify data quality through robot policy training.
• Contribute to broader research agenda, including reinforcement learning, vision-language-action modeling, world-action models, and simulation, in a fast-paced collaborative team.

Education

PhD or equivalent

Job description

Google DeepMind in London, UK seeks a Research Scientist to advance robotics pre-training and data quality for foundation models. You will design experiments, manage large multimodal datasets, and push data pipelines toward robust real-world robotics deployments.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, publish findings, and contribute to scalable training methods with emphasis on robot policy training, data labeling, and benchmarking.