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We are seeking a highly motivated and innovative Research Engineer to join our team in Tokyo, focused on building multimodal embodied gaming agents.\nIn this role, you will work with researchers and engineers to develop embodied gaming agents capable of perceiving, reasoning, planning, and executing precise real-time actions in complex, open-ended environments. You will utilize the latest advancements in multimodal large language models (LLMs), vision-language-action (VLA) models, in-context learning (ICL), supervised fine-tuning (SFT), and reinforcement learning (RL) to solve fundamental challenges in embodied intelligence. You will leverage these architectures to bridge the gap between high-level long-horizon planning and low-level high-frequency motor control, creating agents that can adaptively master tasks in rich virtual testbeds (including high-fidelity 3D simulations and sandbox games).\nThis role offers you a unique opportunity to stand at the forefront of the quest for AI. You will join an exceptional team solving the \"hard problems\" of embodiment-autonomously solving long-horizon tasks, learning from vast multimodal memories, and generalizing to completely unseen worlds. If you are passionate about pushing the frontiers of what AI agents can achieve and are eager to define the next era of adaptive intelligence, we encourage you to apply.Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google 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.\nWe are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. 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