Research Scientist, Robotics

Job Title

Research Scientist, Robotics

Role Details

We are looking for Research Scientists to join the Robotics team at Google DeepMind. The team's mission is to build 'Embodied AI' - a robot brain capable of whole-body, dexterous, general and useful physical actions - to improve the lives of billions of people in the physical world.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, train and evaluate large models and algorithms for robotic agents.
• Write software to implement research ideas and iterate quickly.
• Leverage expertise to participate in a wide variety of research, including learning from simulation, reinforcement learning, learning from demonstrations, vision-language-action models, transformers, video generation, robot control, humanoid robots and more.
• Work effectively with a large collaborative team with fast-paced agendas to meet ambitious research goals.
• Generate creative ideas, set up experiments and test hypotheses. Report and present research findings clearly and efficiently both internally and externally.

Requirements

• PhD in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Knowledge of the latest in large machine learning research.
• Experience working with simulators and real-world robots.
• Expertise in using large datasets with deep neural networks to make real robots useful.
• A real passion for AI impacting real world robots!

Benefits

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $166,000 - $244,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.