Research Scientist, Robotics, DeepMind
Cambridge, MA, USA · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Education
- PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Research and develop foundation models and algorithms that enable robots to perceive, reason, and act, then evaluate and help deploy these capabilities with robotics partners.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, train, and evaluate models and algorithms for robotic agents.
- Write software, conduct experiments, test hypotheses, and communicate research findings.
- Contribute to research across areas such as reinforcement learning, VLA models, robot control, and humanoid robotics.
What they ask for
- PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Research contributions, including publishing papers at conferences such as NeurIPS, CoRL, ICML, or ICLR.
- Experience working with simulators and robots.
Nice to have
- Experience training neural networks using large datasets or simulation to improve real robot behavior.
- Experience in robot manipulation; Python programming.
Pay
$174000 - $252000 (USD) (base salary)
Tools
Gemini, Python, NeurIPS, CoRL, ICML, ICLR
AI focus
Build and advance robotics foundation models, including vision-language-action models, for robotic reasoning, control, and real-world task performance.
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