Research Scientist, Safe Humanoid Robots
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 141000 - 202000
Posted on:
3 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
We are looking for Research Scientists to join the Robotics team whose mission is to Build embodied AI responsibly to benefit people in the physical world. This role is focused on ensuring safe humanoid robot actions spanning agentic reasoning HRI scenarios and physical safety with VLA models.
The Role
Research Scientists work on a diverse and stimulating range of projects including: inventing algorithms and prototype applications working with real robots in the lab and outside the lab tackling real world use cases. Research Scientists work in large collaborative teams to make cutting edge breakthroughs to advance Robotics AI. We believe large foundation models will transform general purpose Robotics like with our Gemini Robotics models. This role will involve working with a diverse multi-functional team that builds the future of robotics.
Key responsibilities:
- Design implement train and evaluate large models and algorithms for humanoid robots.
- Make breakthroughs and unlock new humanoid safety capabilities. Areas of focus include:
- Algorithmic and model development to improve a robot agents understanding of its own embodiment and VLA capabilities;
- Learned policies for appropriate responses around people and responses in atypical situations such actuator faults; Human Robot Interaction
- Write software to implement research ideas and iterate quickly.
- Leverage your expertise to participate in a wide variety of research: 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 large collaborative team with fast-paced agendas to meet ambitious research goals.
- Generate creative ideas set up experiments and test hypotheses. Report and present research findings clearly and efficiently both internally and externally.
About You
In order to set you up for success as a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind we look for the following skills and experience:
- PhD in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- Knowledge of the latest in large machine learning research.
- Experience working with real-world robots
In addition expertise with a subset of the following would be an advantage:
- Research track record in one or more of the following topics: Humanoid Whole Body Control Vision Language Action models; Motion Planning Force Control AI Safety Diffusion Policies World Models Imitation Learning and Reinforcement Learning Sim2Real Transfer Alignment Techniques
- Expertise in using large datasets with deep neural networks to make real robots useful
The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $141000 - $202000 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.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Machine Learning
- Python
- AI
- Bioinformatics
- C/C++
- R
- Biochemistry
- Research Experience
- Natural Language Processing
- Deep Learning
- Molecular Biology
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.
