The Staff Research Engineer position at DeepMind focuses on developing expressive motion and believability for robots. The role involves training robots to exhibit emotionally legible movements and collaborating with animators to enhance character behavior. The engineer will work with advanced video generation models to create real-time expressive behaviors. This position is part of a pioneering AI lab dedicated to solving complex global challenges through innovative technology.

• 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, and multimodal generative modeling.

• Work with omni/omni-live to extract animation and fine-tune models for real-time behavior generation.
• Design, train, and evaluate reinforcement learning and imitation learning algorithms for lifelike movements.
• Collaborate with animators to convert hand-authored reference motion into style-conditioned policies.
• Create scenario suites and automated critics to assess behavior accuracy.
• Conduct paired human comparisons to evaluate automated critics against human judgment.

• Employees at Google are often offered benefits like comprehensive health insurance, 401(k) matching, and flexible work arrangements, among other benefits.