Research Scientist, Robotics Data, Pretraining, DeepMind
Google, Mountain View, California
About the job
Minimum qualifications
- PhD in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical
experience.
- Experience working with robot policy learning (e.g., imitation learning, RL)
across simulators and real-world robotic platforms (e.g., dexterous manipulation, multimodal sensing).
- Experience working with simulators and robots.
- Experience contributing to research communities or efforts, including
publishing papers at conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CoRL, ICML, ICLR).
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with systematic benchmarking, multimodal data sources, data
labeling strategies, and data mixture optimization for frontier or robotics foundation models.
- Practical experience in "hill-climbing" model performance (e.g., iteratively
improving data curation, training recipes, and model benchmarks).
- Proven ability to build and maintain clean research software and tools for
