Google DeepMind Tokyo hiring senior research engineer for gaming AI agents
heiga_zen · x · 2026-10-01
- Google DeepMind's Tokyo team is hiring a Senior Research Engineer for its Gaming AI team to build general-purpose game agents.
- GDM notes it's the only frontier AI lab developing frontier models natively in Japan, with Tokyo focused on Gemini-based gaming AI like SIMA.
- The role involves directly working on Gemini 4 and other multimodal LLMs and VLA models, building next-gen agents that autonomously handle perception, reasoning, long-horizon planning and real-time action in complex 3D environments and games.
- Strong software engineering skills are emphasized; application link in the original post.
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