CareerPlan

Founding RL Engineer

San FranciscoFull-time$125k–$200k2026-10-19 → 2026-10-23
On-siteVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Design and build reinforcement learning environments, reward functions, and training pipelines to help AI agents handle complex work.

Role type

Founding RL Engineer

Builds

Reinforcement learning systems and AI agents

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Reinforcement Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Reinforcement learning, Python, PyTorch, JAX, distributed training, GPU infrastructure, RL environments, reward functions, training pipelines, evaluation frameworks

Preferred skills

LLM post-training, agent training, simulation frameworks, training libraries

Technologies

PPO, GRPO, DPO, RLHF, RLAIF

Responsibilities

Design and build RL environments, reward functions, and training pipelines; Train and fine-tune models using RL methods; Build evaluation frameworks; Run experiments and interpret results; Scale training on GPU clusters; Turn research ideas into production systems

Seniority

Founding, hands-on IC