Robotics Data Scientist Gemini Pretraining for Robotics

DeepMind Technologies Limited; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind in Mountain View seeks a Research Scientist to design large-scale experiments, deploy ideas quickly, and advance Gemini foundation models for robotic systems. You will set up experiments, prototype implementations, and design architectures that apply to real-world problems across machine learning, robotics, and data quality.

You will actively publish findings and collaborate with partner universities to advance the wider research agenda, contributing to data quality insights and

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience working with robot policy learning across simulators and real-world robotic platforms (e.g., dexterous manipulation, multimodal sensing).
• Experience working with simulators and robots.
• Experience contributing to research communities or efforts, including publishing papers at conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CoRL, ICML, ICLR).

Responsibilities

• Develop data quality, filtering, and labeling methodologies, and optimize multimodal data representations and mixtures to upstream physical and action knowledge into Gemini pre-training.
• Design and run pre-training and policy training ablations, improve training recipes, and systematically hill-climb physical reasoning and action performance against benchmarks.
• Build and maintain the research software, evaluation tools, and lightweight post-training workflows required to iterate on research ideas quickly and verify upstream data quality through offline and closed-loop robot policy evaluations.
• Contribute to our wider research agenda—including vision-language-action (VLA) modeling, world-action models, reinforcement learning, and simulation—and communicate findings clearly in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.

Skills

Robot policy learning

Simulators and robots

Research publishing

Cross-team collaboration

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google DeepMind in Mountain View seeks a Research Scientist to design large-scale experiments, deploy ideas quickly, and advance Gemini foundation models for robotic systems. You will set up experiments, prototype implementations, and design architectures that apply to real-world problems across machine learning, robotics, and data quality.

You will actively publish findings and collaborate with partner universities to advance the wider research agenda, contributing to data quality insights and