Staff Research Engineer, Expressive Motion and Believability, DeepMind
Google · Posted Nov 6, 2026
- San Francisco, California, United States +1 more
- On-site
- Full-time · Senior
- $207K–$300K per year
- 8–8 years
Research Engineer on the Companion Robots team, training expressive motion and developing evaluation metrics for robotic behavior.
Locations (2)
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Mountain View, California, United States
Compensation
US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Responsibilities
- Work with omni/omni-live to extract animation, fine tune models to generate real time behavior and expression in response to stimulus and internal motivation of the character.
- Design, train and evaluate reinforcement learning and imitation learning algorithms for lifelike movement, gaze and posture, conditioned on the robot's affective and motivational state.
- Work with animators to convert a library of hand-authored reference motion into style-conditioned policies, using adversarial motion priors and related techniques, so that character can be authored rather than hand-tuned.
- Create scenario suites, batch simulation, video capture, and automated critics that assess behavior reads correct to an observer.