Research Scientist, Robotics, DeepMind

DeepMind Technologies Limited; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target 15%

Benefits

Job summary

Google DeepMind is seeking roboticists, designers, hardware and software engineers to advance AI-powered robotics across diverse applications. This role focuses on building foundation models, such as vision-language-action models, to enable physical agents to perceive, plan, and act with dexterity.

You will work on Gemini Robotics and related devices, integrating world understanding with real-time robotic control while collaborating with partner robotics companies to scale these innovations

Qualifications

• PhD degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience publishing papers in top conferences (NeurIPS, CoRL, ICML, ICLR).
• Experience working with simulators and robots.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, train, and evaluate large models and algorithms for robotic agents.
• Write software to implement research ideas and iterate quickly.
• Participate in research areas including learning from simulation, RL, demonstrations, VLA models, transformers, robot control.
• Work with a large collaborative team to meet ambitious research goals.
• Generate ideas, set up experiments, and present findings clearly.

Skills

Python programming

Robotics experience

Research publishing

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Simulators

Robots

Job description

• PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience contributing to research communities or efforts, including publishing papers at conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CoRL, ICML, ICLR).
• Experience working with simulators and robots.

Minimum qualifications:

• PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience contributing to research communities or efforts, including publishing papers at conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CoRL, ICML, ICLR).
• Experience working with simulators and robots.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience training neural networks using large datasets or simulation to improve real robot behavior.
• Experience in robot manipulation.
• Experience with Python programming.

About The Job:

We believe there are many problems in the world in which robotics could play a significant role in making it easier, faster and safer for people to get things done. We're looking for roboticists, designers, hardware and software engineers to help us explore these possibilities, develop breakthrough technologies, and build new products that could help millions of people.

At DeepMind Robotics, we are pioneering the integration of AI into the physical world to power an era of physical agents. By enabling robots to perceive, plan, think, use tools, and act, we empower them to solve increasingly tasks.

In this role, you will focus on building foundation models, such as advanced vision-language-action (VLA) models, which combine Gemini's world understanding with physical actions to provide direct robotic control. These include Gemini Robotics, our most advanced Gemini model for the physical world, and Gemini Robotics On-Device, our fastest Gemini model that functions without a data network.

These models allow robots to perform a broad range of tasks, respond interactively to their environment, achieve high dexterity, and reason over long, multi-step sequences. Beyond model building, we are committed to advancing general-purpose robotics, specifically in areas like agentic reasoning, real-world understanding, action generalization, human-robot interaction, dexterity, whole-body control, and continual learning. To deploy these innovations at scale, you will partner with key robotics companies to bring this intelligence to the physical world across a broad array of applications.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity's most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities:

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• Design, implement, train, and evaluate large models and algorithms for robotic agents to make breakthroughs and unlock new robot capabilities.
• Write software to implement research ideas and iterate quickly.
• Participate in a wide variety of research, including learning from simulation, reinforcement learning, learning from demonstrations, vision-language-action (VLA) models, transformers, video generation, robot control, humanoid robots, and more.
• Work effectively with a large collaborative team with changing agendas to meet ambitious research goals.
• Generate creative ideas, set up experiments, and test hypotheses to report and present research findings clearly and efficiently both internally and externally.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .