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Research Scientist, Robotics, Cloud AI

Google· Research
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Kirkland, WA$174k - $252kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Research Scientist role in Google Cloud AI focusing on robotics, with responsibilities spanning novel manipulation, planning, navigation, and real-world deployment of robotic systems, and collaboration across research and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Develop novel techniques for robotic grasping, dexterous manipulation, planning, navigation, and 3D spatial understanding in dynamic physical environments.
  • Design scalable teleoperation systems, portable data capture interfaces, and agent-assisted workflows to drive robot learning.
  • Create advanced sim-to-real frameworks to enable scalable, generalized policy learning.
  • Architect, test, and deploy robust hardware-software robotic systems to automate complex, high-precision physical workflows under real-world constraints.
  • Partner with researchers, hardware specialists, and engineering teams to push the frontiers of physical AI across Google.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science or robotics related fields, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience in research across robotics domains (e.g., navigation, locomotion, manipulation, data collection for robot learning, sim-to-real transfer, vision-language-action model, or world action model development).
  • One or more scientific publication submissions for conferences, journals, or public repositories (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, RSS, ICRA, IROS, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, etc).
  • Experience coding in Python or C++.

Skills

Required:Robotics researchPythonC++
Nice to have:PyTorchROS2

Benefits

  • Benefits package including health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance; 401(k) with company match; paid time off; sick time; maternity and baby bonding leave; holidays.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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