Robotics Foundation Model Scientist — Data Quality & Pre-Training

DeepMind Technologies Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

DeepMind Technologies Limited is seeking a Research Scientist in the United Kingdom to design and deploy large-scale tests, iteratively improve robot policy training, and apply advanced techniques to foundation models for real-world robotics.

You will manage data, benchmarks, and experiments, coordinating with cross-functional teams to translate research ideas into robust software and systems for robotics applications, simulations, and deployment.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Algorithmic architectures

Multimodal models

Robotics applications

Education

PhD in a technical field or equivalent practical experience

Job description

DeepMind Technologies Limited is seeking a Research Scientist in the United Kingdom to design and deploy large-scale tests, iteratively improve robot policy training, and apply advanced techniques to foundation models for real-world robotics.

You will manage data, benchmarks, and experiments, coordinating with cross-functional teams to translate research ideas into robust software and systems for robotics applications, simulations, and deployment.