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Research Engineer, Robotics, DeepMind

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Cambridge, MA, USA$147k - $210kfull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Robotics-focused software engineering role at Google DeepMind in Cambridge, MA, connecting physical and simulated robot platforms to the research and machine learning software stack. Opportunity to build unified interfaces across physics simulation and hardware, work with hardware, simulation, and ML teams, and contribute to research-driven robotics projects.

Responsibilities

  • Integrate robot control software and hardware interfaces with our common robotics SDK across simulated and physical platforms, end effectors, and wearable devices.
  • Build, validate, and maintain physics simulation environments and software-in-the-loop harnesses that accurately model the on-robot software stack, control loops, and hardware interfaces.
  • Run and maintain the on-robot execution harness to call local and remote machine learning action models in real time.
  • Connect platforms to the teleoperation and data logging stack to capture synchronized sensor streams, robot actions, and demonstrations for model training.
  • Develop platforms with fleet orchestration and evaluation tools to run standardized benchmarks and guide data collection.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 3 years of experience developing, integrating, and debugging software for simulated and physical robotic systems.
  • Experience with physics simulation environments (such as MuJoCo, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, or Gazebo) for modeling robots, testing software stacks, or validating sim-to-real transfer.
  • Experience integrating sensor streams (cameras, IMUs, encoders, or tactile sensors), actuator interfaces, and real-time control loops into a robotics software stack.

Skills

Required:Robotics software stack development
Nice to have:Machine learning for roboticsSystem identification / sensor modelingTeleoperation systems / motion tracking

Benefits

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

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