Robotics Research Scientist — Multimodal & Human Data

Google DeepMind; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind seeks a Research Scientist to design, implement and evaluate large models for robotic agents, driving breakthroughs in multimodal data and dexterous manipulation. You will prototype experiments, train agents and publish findings, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to push research toward real-world robotics applications.

You will contribute to scalable data pipelines, leverage simulation and real-world data, and publish results while ensuring robust, efficient deployment

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 models

Vision-language models

Video models

Multimodal generative modeling

Simulators

Dexterous manipulation

Multimodal sensing

Research to real-world deployment

Education

PhD in CS/related field

Job description

Google DeepMind seeks a Research Scientist to design, implement and evaluate large models for robotic agents, driving breakthroughs in multimodal data and dexterous manipulation. You will prototype experiments, train agents and publish findings, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to push research toward real-world robotics applications.

You will contribute to scalable data pipelines, leverage simulation and real-world data, and publish results while ensuring robust, efficient deployment