Research Engineer, Developer Experience, Gemini Robotics
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Job Location:
Mountain View, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 166000 - 244000
Posted on:
4 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Snapshot
Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanitys most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind were a team of scientists engineers machine learning experts and more working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery and collaborate with others on critical challenges ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.
About Us
The Gemini Robotics Applied team works at the intersection of Engineering Product and Community. The goal is to have our robotics models revolutionize development robotics applications. This role champions developer success by delivering seamless experiences across our model tools and service offering. Through deep collaborations across Google we empower developers by providing high-quality launch and onboard materials technical outreach and a supportive ecosystem for robotics developers of all backgrounds.
The Role
As a Robotics Research Engineer focusing on Developer Experience for Google DeepMind you will serve as the technical bridge between our core teams and the external developer community. You are the trusted voice of the developer inside our organization and the expert technical voice of our organization to the world.
Your mission is to champion developer success and drive the adoption of our foundational models and tools within the robotics domain. This role requires a unique blend of deep technical expertise genuine developer empathy and strategic thinking to navigate the rapid evolution of generative AI and its application to robotics. You will actively shape our products multiply the impact of launches and scale the AI builders ecosystem globally.
Key responsibilities:
- Prototyping and reference implementation: Act as the zeroth user build prototypes write and maintain code examples and demos evaluate developer workflow and provide critical hands-on feedback to improve developer experience.
- Own open source: Develop and maintain open source repositories and libraries and improve the general project for external developers.
- Technical Content and Education: Create and publish technical content such as tutorials integration guides API documentation video workshops and deep-dive blogs etc that simplifies complex concepts and lowers the barrier to entry for developers.
- Community Engagement & Advocacy: Represent Google DeepMind as a technology advocate at major robotics conferences and events (e.g. ROSCon ICRA ...) attend developer meetups etc. Actively engage with the community on forums (e.g. Discourse) GitHub etc answering questions resolving problems collecting feedback.
- Strategy and Ecosystem Growth: Help define road map and strategy for new robotics models SDK and tools. Drive the growth of our developer ecosystem.
About You
In order to set you up for success as a Research Engineer at Google DeepMind we look for the following skills and experience:
- Bachelors degree or equivalent relevant experience.
- Experience of managing successful developer communities especially in the area of robotics and foundation model.
- Experience in developing and maintaining (open sourced) software libraries or applications with external developers.
- Practical experience with robotics and/or foundation models; worked with popular robotics stack tools and libraries.
In addition the following would be an advantage:
- Passionate about robotics and foundation models. Envision a future world in which robots are ubiquitous. Eager to accelerate the progress via building and developer community to maximize leverage.
- Compassion with developers. Willing to help others understand a technical concept or onboard a new technology with examples tutorials and documentations.
- A portfolio of technical blog posts or public events engagements in robotics or foundation model areas.
- Excellent verbal and oral communication.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $166000 - $244000 bonus equity benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.
At Google DeepMind we value diversity of experience knowledge backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex race religion or belief ethnic or national origin disability age citizenship marital domestic or civil partnership status sexual orientation gender identity pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation please do not hesitate to let us know.
Key Skills
- Robotics
- Machine Learning
- Python
- AI
- C/C++
- OS Kernels
- Research Experience
- Matlab
- Rust
- Research & Development
- Natural Language Processing
- Tensorflow
About Company
Artificial intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. We research and build safe artificial intelligence systems. We're committed to solving intelligence, to advance science and benefit humanity.
