Google DeepMind Inception Team Hires 5 to Transition SIMA and Genie from Research Prototypes to Game Products

According to monitoring by Dongcha Beating, Alexandre Moufarek, the director of Google DeepMind’s Inception team, has posted five job openings on X: game designer, senior product manager, QA engineer, senior software engineer, and research engineer (Staff level), all linked to Google Careers. Before joining DeepMind, Moufarek worked at Ubisoft on two AAA games, ‘Ghost Recon: Future Soldier’ and ‘Watch Dogs’, and later managed the product for the Pepper home robot at SoftBank. After joining DeepMind, he has been involved in Project Astra, SIMA, Genie, and Gemini. The key aspect is the positioning of the Inception team. DeepMind describes it as a ‘creative, design, and engineering team working alongside research teams’, aiming to explore ‘game experiences that could not be created without AI before’. It is not a research group but a product team that turns research results into playable prototypes. Looking at the job composition, among the five positions, there are product managers, game designers, and QA engineers, which have not typically appeared in pure research teams. DeepMind has previously demonstrated a combination of SIMA 2 and Genie 3: the former is a 3D virtual world agent based on Gemini set to be released in November 2025, while the latter is a world model capable of generating 3D worlds in real-time. DeepMind connects the two, allowing the agent to execute commands in newly generated worlds. However, SIMA 2 is still only a ‘limited research preview’, accessible to a small number of scholars and game developers. This round of hiring aims to transform research demonstrations into products that can be delivered to external developers.