Robotics Research Scientist, Human Data & Multimodal AI

Google Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind London is seeking a Research Scientist focused on Human Data, Robotics, and multimodal AI. You will design, train and evaluate large robotic models, integrating human data and simulations to advance real-world robot capabilities.

You will publish findings and contribute to multi-disciplinary teams, applying reinforcement and imitation learning, vision-language models, and generative techniques. A passion for translating lab research into production robotics is essential.

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

Vision

Multimodal models

Generative modeling

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google DeepMind London is seeking a Research Scientist focused on Human Data, Robotics, and multimodal AI. You will design, train and evaluate large robotic models, integrating human data and simulations to advance real-world robot capabilities.

You will publish findings and contribute to multi-disciplinary teams, applying reinforcement and imitation learning, vision-language models, and generative techniques. A passion for translating lab research into production robotics is essential.