Software Engineer, Robotics Infrastructure

Snapshot

Google Deepmind Robotics’s mission is to solve AGI in the physical world . We are looking for an exceptional software engineer to tackle some of the most difficult challenges bringing our research breakthroughs into safe, scalable and reliable real-world applications.

About Us

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind, we’re a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, and collaborate with others on critical challenges, ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.

The Role

As a software engineer in the GDM Robotics Infrastructure team. You work closely with researchers and engineers across the teams to build and improve GDM Robotics' end-to-end software stack, from latency sensitive on-robot software to large-scale data and ML pipelines. The software you build and maintain not only advances our scientific research, but also drives real world applications for partners and customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement or optimize critical software components in large-scale, end-to-end robotics, data and ML systems, empowering both cutting edge robotics research and real-world applications.


• Develop and maintain novel development and test infrastructure for real-world robotics applications, deliver processes and tools improving overall team productivity and software quality.


• Closely collaborate with engineers and researchers across the organization, deliver key features and improvements accelerating our research progresses and bringing our embodied AI into the real-world.

About You

You are a multi-disciplinary and hands-on engineer with deep curiosity and willingness to stretch and learn. You embrace risks and have a healthy disregard for the status quo. You’re passionate about challenging technical problems in complex systems, and be confident solving them no matter what and where they are.

In order to set you up for success as a Software Engineer - Robotics Infrastructure in Google DeepMind, we look for the following skills and experience:

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.


• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.


• Strong C++ and Python development skills, including systems, API and tests design, performance analysis and optimization.


• Experience with developing, maintaining, debugging and optimizing in a large codebase and complex systems.


• Effectively adopt and work in a fast changing environment, strong communication skills working with engineers and researchers from multiple teams.

In addition, the following would be an advantage:

• Experience developing and performance optimizing in large scale data or ML pipelines.


• Experience with designing and maintaining development or test infrastructure for large, complex software systems.


• Experience with robot software or embedded/real-time systems.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $166,000 - $244,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.

Application deadline: Oct 10th, 2025 12PM PST

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