Research Engineer, Robotics, DeepMind
Cambridge, MA, USA · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 3 years required; preferred qualification lists 5 years of experience building robotics software-stack components, SDKs, or hardware abstraction layers.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Builds software interfaces and tools that connect physical and simulated robots to research and machine-learning systems.
What you'll do
- Integrate robot control software and hardware interfaces across simulated and physical platforms.
- Build and maintain simulation environments and software-in-the-loop harnesses; run real-time machine-learning models on robots.
- Connect robots to teleoperation, data-logging, fleet-orchestration, and evaluation tools.
What they ask for
- 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.
- Experience integrating sensor streams, actuator interfaces, and real-time control loops into a robotics software stack.
Nice to have
- 5 years of experience building robotics software-stack components, SDKs, or hardware abstraction layers.
- Experience with machine-learning policies on robots, sim-to-real work, teleoperation, wearable data collection, or automated testing.
Pay
$147000 - $210000 (USD) base salary
Tools
MuJoCo, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Gazebo
AI focus
Runs local and remote machine-learning action models on robots and supports research and training with robot demonstrations and data capture; preferred experience includes deploying machine-learning policies on physical robots.
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