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Reinforcement Learning Engineer - Manipulation

UK, London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-16 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build highly performant and robust manipulation policies for humanoid robots using reinforcement learning in both simulation and physical reality.

Role type

Senior IC reinforcement learning engineer (robotics manipulation)

Builds

Language-vision conditioned manipulation policies for HMND-01 Alpha humanoid platform

Domain

Robotics + Deep Learning (Reinforcement Learning)

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Reinforcement learning with deep neural networks, LLMs/VLMs/image/video generative models, Python, PyTorch/JAX, simulation-based task construction, behavior cloning, real-world RL training pipelines

Preferred skills

Robotics simulators (Isaac Sim, MuJoCo), large-scale RL infrastructure (Ray), OpenVLA/Physical Intelligence frameworks, top-tier conference publications

Responsibilities

Train language-vision conditioned manipulation policies via RL in simulation and real world, construct diverse manipulation tasks in simulation, partner with teleoperations for trajectory collection, establish real-world RL training pipelines, experiment with sim-to-real transfer

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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