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Staff Reinforcement Learning Research Engineer

Waltham Office (POST)💼 Full-time💰 $155,284–$155,284🗓 2026-05-12 → 2026-07-31

Core

Building scalable reinforcement learning frameworks for humanoid and quadruped robots, focusing on simulation, policy optimization, and on-robot deployment.

Role type

Staff Reinforcement Learning Research Engineer

Builds

Scalable RL stack, massively parallel simulation environments, and production-grade training pipelines for physical robots.

Domain

Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, Computer Graphics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Reinforcement learning algorithms (on-policy/off-policy), GPU-accelerated simulation, sim-to-real transfer, PyTorch/JAX, robotics control, software engineering fundamentals

Preferred skills

Production-grade RL pipeline experience, heterogeneous compute clusters, Kubernetes, VLAs and policy distillation

Technologies

RSL-RL, CleanRL, RLlib, Stable Baselines, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, MjWarp, MjLab, ONNX, Triton, TensorRT, Bazel, Docker

Responsibilities

Implement on-policy and off-policy learning algorithms, scale GPU-accelerated simulation, integrate RL with VLAs, build visualization tools for data-driven research, ensure fast and reproducible deployment

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic ownership

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