Robotics Research Scientist: Foundation Models & VLA

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

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