Robotics Data Scientist: Pretraining & Policy Learning

Google LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Research Scientist to advance robotics data and pretraining within the Gemini initiative. You will set up large-scale tests, deploy ideas quickly, and shape how physical reasoning and action capabilities emerge in next-generation Gemini models for real-world robots.

The role emphasizes data quality insights, benchmarking, and collaboration with interdisciplinary teams to push foundation-model research from lab to robust robotic systems.

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

Robotics

Research publications

Education

PhD in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Job description

Google DeepMind in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Research Scientist to advance robotics data and pretraining within the Gemini initiative. You will set up large-scale tests, deploy ideas quickly, and shape how physical reasoning and action capabilities emerge in next-generation Gemini models for real-world robots.

The role emphasizes data quality insights, benchmarking, and collaboration with interdisciplinary teams to push foundation-model research from lab to robust robotic systems.