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Research Scientist, Robotics RL, DeepMind

As a part of this role, you will lead our efforts in developing novel algorithms and models for embodied AI and Artificial General Intelligence as we are looking for creative thinkers with strong algorithm-design and programming skills that

Company

Google

Location

London, UK

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-18T09:13:45+00:00

A research scientist role at Google DeepMind in London, working on embodied AI and robotics foundation models. The person designs, trains and evaluates algorithms for robot agents, with a focus on post-training, self-improvement and mastery, plus imitation learning, simulation-based learning, whole-body control and dexterity. They build research pipelines, run experiments and present findings. The posting asks for a PhD or equivalent experience and two years in reinforcement learning or mid-/post-training of foundation models, and values work with simulators, real robots and multimodal sensing.