11 hours ago
Base Salary
$207k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Extract animation and fine-tune models with omni/omni-live to generate real-time behavior and expression in response to stimuli and internal motivations.
- Design, train, and evaluate reinforcement learning and imitation learning algorithms for lifelike movement, gaze, and posture conditioned on affective and motivational states.
- Convert hand-authored reference motion into style-conditioned policies using adversarial motion priors and related techniques.
- Create scenario suites, batch simulations, video capture, and automated critics to assess whether behavior reads correctly to observers.
- Run paired human comparisons with designers and human-factors partners and measure correlation between automated critics and human judgment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Eight years of software development experience.
- Five years of experience testing and launching software products.
- Three years of experience with software design and architecture.
- Two years of experience with reinforcement learning, imitation learning, multimodal generative modeling, training and inference, and large vision, vision-language, video, and other multimodal models.
- One year of experience building generative architectures or world models applied to video, robotics, or interactive simulation environments.
- Preferred: master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Preferred: eight years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- Preferred: three years in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
- Preferred: three years working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional or cross-business projects.
Benefits
- US base pay is listed at $207000-$300000, plus a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
- Benefits information is provided through Google’s benefits program.
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
About Google
Google builds consumer and enterprise software and services including Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, and Google Cloud. Its business model centers on digital advertising and paid cloud, software, and hardware offerings (e.g., Pixel and Nest) for consumers, developers, and organizations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google operates globally as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.