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Research Scientist, Robotics, DeepMind

Google· DeepMind
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Cambridge, MA, USA$174k - $252kFull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Research Scientist role at DeepMind Robotics focusing on building foundation models for robotic agents, with emphasis on vision-language-action models and deploying AI in physical world tasks.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, train, and evaluate large models and algorithms for robotic agents to make breakthroughs and unlock new robot capabilities.
  • Write software to implement research ideas and iterate quickly.
  • Participate in a wide variety of research, including learning from simulation, reinforcement learning, learning from demonstrations, vision-language-action (VLA) models, transformers, video generation, robot control, humanoid robots, and more.
  • Work effectively with a large collaborative team with changing agendas to meet ambitious research goals.
  • Generate creative ideas, set up experiments, and test hypotheses to report and present research findings clearly and efficiently both internally and externally.

Qualifications

  • PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience contributing to research communities or efforts, including publishing papers at conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CoRL, ICML, ICLR).
  • Experience working with simulators and robots.

Skills

Required:PhD or equivalent practical experienceExperience publishing research papersRobotics platforms and simulators
Nice to have:Python programming

Benefits

  • Learn more about benefits at Google (online link provided in job description).
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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