Robotics AI Scientist - Foundation Models & Dexterity

Google LLC; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC’s DeepMind Robotics unit is seeking a research-focused roboticist to advance foundation models and real-world robot control. The role focuses on integrating AI into physical agents to enable intelligent robotic systems and broad deployment across applications.

You will contribute to Gemini Robotics, Gemini Robotics On-Device, and related VLA models, collaborating with industry partners to scale capabilities while prioritizing safety and ethics in deployment.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Neural networks

Robotics simulation

Robot manipulation

Python programming

Research publications

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python

Job description

Google LLC’s DeepMind Robotics unit is seeking a research-focused roboticist to advance foundation models and real-world robot control. The role focuses on integrating AI into physical agents to enable intelligent robotic systems and broad deployment across applications.

You will contribute to Gemini Robotics, Gemini Robotics On-Device, and related VLA models, collaborating with industry partners to scale capabilities while prioritizing safety and ethics in deployment.