Research Engineer, Benchmarking, Robotics, DeepMind

_corporate_fare_ DeepMind _place_ Mountain View, CA, USA

**Minimum qualifications:**

+ Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or equivalent practical experience.
+ 2 years of experience with machine learning tools and algorithms, specifically deploying LLMs/VLMs and deep learning models.
+ Experience in a technical role (software engineering, AI/ML engineering, or solutions architecture).
+ Experience with Python, and with modern AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping.

**Preferred qualifications:**

+ Experience with ROS/ROS2, or on-device deployment constraints (Jetson, TPU).
+ Experience managing large-scale multimodal datasets, time-series telemetry data, or building automated pipelines for hardware-in-the-loop testing.
+ Familiarity with the operational realities of modern vision-language-action (VLA) models or behavior cloning policies and their...