Robotics Hardware Industrialization Engineer, DeepMind

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

The Embodied Systems team is the new hardware-centric group within Deepmind Robotics. Our mission is to accelerate AI research in the physical domain through the world's most advanced robotics systems. You will be joining on the ground floor of our hardware operations, meaning your fingerprints will be on the processes, products and relationships that we forge.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Research, Engineering, Facilities and Safety teams, concept-out testing hardware, systems, environments and fixtures to enable effective testing and reliable data-collection.
• Lead the transition of a research goal into an industrialized concept that can be prototyped and manufactured in a testing laboratory environment.
• Create detailed work instructions, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and bill of materials (BOM) for testing and development systems and structures.
• Design and implement assembly fixtures, calibration rigs, and automated test equipment for our data collection and hardware development laboratories.
• Partner with vendors to resolve technical challenges and extended workforce testing/development/fabrication needs.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years in experience in hardware design, fleet maintenance, robotics service, or high-tech field engineering.
• Experience in design engineering and use of associated CAD tools (OnShape, SolidWorks or similar 3D parametric CAD packages).
• Experience writing technical manuals, SOPs, or maintenance logs for a wider team.

Preferred qualifications:

• Comfortable working in a lab/warehouse setting and managing physical assets, driving for excellence in a 5S methodology setting.
• Passion for robotics.
• A mechanical intuition for identifying root causes of hardware failure in the field.