Staff Research Engineer, Expressive Motion and Believability
Google DeepMind · San Francisco, CA, USA · Mountain View, CA, USA
Frontier labonsitestaff$207k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Train expressive robot motion where gait, gaze and posture show internal state.
- Build evaluation harness with scenario suites and automated critics for behavior.
- Partner with animators to turn hand-authored motion into style-conditioned policies.
What they offer
- 20% bonus target
- equity
- benefits
Ideal candidate
Creative engineer passionate about believable characters and expressive robotics who thrives collaborating with animators and designers to bring robots to life.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 8 years of experience in software development
- 5 years of experience testing and launching software products
- 3 years of experience with software design and architecture
- 2 years of experience in reinforcement learning, imitation learning, multimodal generative modeling, training and inference, and large vision, vision-language, video, and other multimodal models
- 1 year of experience building generative architectures or world models applied to video, robotics, or interactive simulation environments
Lab profile
About Google DeepMind
Google's AI lab building frontier models like Gemini to advance science and general intelligence.
What they build
- Gemini
- Gemma
- AlphaFold
Known for
- Frontier foundation models and GenAI
- Large-scale training with JAX, PyTorch, TensorFlow
- Model evaluation and deployment expertise
- Responsible frontier AI research
Key facts
- Founded in 2010
- Headquartered in London, UK
- Part of Google (Alphabet)
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