Staff Research Engineer, Expressive Motion and Believability, DeepMind
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As a Research Engineer on the Companion Robots team, you will train expressive, emotionally legible motion—including gait, gaze, posture, and gesture that change visibly with the robot's internal state—and develop the metrics to evaluate its effectiveness. You will work directly with animators and character designers, utilizing their expertise as a tuning pass and training signal, while building the evaluation harness required to compare behaviors, models, and robot platforms. Furthermore, you will collaborate with our state-of-the-art video generation and interaction models, such as Omni or Code Genie, to create systems capable of generating real-time expressive behavior in response to stimuli and internal motivations.…
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