CareerPlan

Research Scientist, Reinforcement Learning - Atlas

Waltham Office (POST)Full-time$175k–$230k2026-04-27 → 2026-11-11

Core

Design, train, and deploy reinforcement learning (RL) policies for whole-body mobile manipulation and dexterous manipulation on humanoid robots in unstructured environments.

Role type

Research Scientist (Reinforcement Learning & Robotics)

Builds

RL policies for Atlas humanoid robots

Domain

Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, Whole-body Control

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Reinforcement Learning, Robotics (kinematics, dynamics), Python, C++, Simulation (Isaac Sim, MuJoCo), ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, RLlib), Algorithm design, Performance optimization

Preferred skills

Physical robot deployment, Locomotion, Bimanual manipulation, Open-source contributions, Top-tier conference publications

Technologies

Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, PyTorch, TensorFlow, RLlib, Python, C++