Research Scientist, Robotics - New York

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We are looking for Research Scientists to join the Robotics team whose mission is to build “Embodied AI” - a robot brain capable of turning language instructions into useful physical actions - to improve the lives of billions of people in the physical world.

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity's most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind, we're 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.

Research Scientists work on a diverse and stimulating range of projects including: developing algorithms and prototype applications, providing software design and programming support to research projects, along with architecting and implementing software libraries. Our Research Scientists are pivotal to the development and ongoing improvement of our research through the computational implementation of our latest theoretical work.

In order to set you up for success as a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, we look for the following skills and experience:

In addition, the following would be an advantage:

and healthier lives, both in and out of work, and our benefits reflect that. Some select benefits we offer: enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave, private medical and dental insurance for yourself and any dependents, and flexible working options. We strive to continually improve our working environment, and provide you with excellent facilities such as healthy food, an on-site gym, faith rooms, terraces etc. We are also open to relocating candidates to New York and offer a bespoke service and immigration support to make it as easy as possible (depending on eligibility).