Sean Kirmani

Work Experience

OpenAI — Member of Technical Staff [Aug 2025 - Present]

AI research. San Francisco, California.

Google DeepMind — Senior Research Scientist [Mar 2023 - Aug 2025]

Artificial intelligence research in vision, language, and robotics. Mountain View, California.

Everyday Robots — Research Lead, Semantic Perception [Nov 2021 - Apr 2023]

Everyday Robots spun out of Google[x] in November 2021. Mountain View, California.

Google[x] — Senior Research Engineer, The Everyday Robot Project [July 2018 – Nov 2021]

Early computer vision engineer at The Everyday Robot Project. Mountain View, California.

Google[x] — Research Engineering Intern, The Everyday Robot Project [May 2017 – Aug 2017]

Worked on perception for human-robot interaction. Mountain View, California.

Google — Software Engineering Intern, Project Tango [May 2016 – Aug 2016]

Created augmented reality environmental lighting system for Tango SDK. Mountain View, California.

Google — Software Engineering Intern [May 2015 – Aug 2015]

Chrome for Android. Mountain View, California.

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

Honors Thesis: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Aerial Obstacle Avoidance using Monocular RGB Images