Research Scientist, Manipulation Robotics, DeepMind

Research Scientist, Manipulation for Robotics, Deep Mind

Deep Mind Mountain View, CA, USA

• PhD in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience contributing to research communities or efforts, including publishing papers at conferences such as NeurIPS, CoRL, ICML, ICLR
• Experience with dexterous manipulation
• Experience working with simulators and robots

• Experience training neural networks using large datasets or simulation to improve real robot behavior
• Experience with sim2real
• Experience with Python programming
• Passion for Robotics

• Design, implement, train, and evaluate large models and algorithms for robotic agents to 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 models, transformers, video generation, robot control, humanoid robots, and more
• Work effectively with a 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
• Enable robots to perform human‑level manipulation using frontier robotics models for general‑purpose dexterous tasks in real‑world applications
• Collaborate with other Deep Mind teams and work with real robots in lab and field environments

US: $147,000 - $211,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Equity is granted exclusively and discretionarily by Alphabet Inc. on the basis of an agreement concluded between the employee and Alphabet Inc.

We are pioneering the integration of AI into the physical world to power an era of physical agents. By enabling robots to perceive, plan, think, use tools, and act, we empower them to solve increasingly complex tasks. Research Scientists work on a stimulating range of projects, from inventing algorithms and prototype applications to working with real robots in the lab and beyond.

This role involves collaborating with a multi‑functional, world‑leading robotics research team to advance Robotics AI and bring general‑purpose robotics models to life.

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