CareerPlan

RL Engineer | Humanoid

LondonFull-time2026-10-20 → 2026-11-11
On-siteVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Build high-performing, robust manipulation policies using reinforcement learning in simulation and on real hardware for humanoid robots.

Role type

Senior individual contributor RL engineer (robotics manipulation)

Builds

Manipulation policies for the HMND-01 humanoid robot platform

Domain

Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, Vision-Language-Action models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Reinforcement learning, Deep learning, Python, PyTorch or JAX, Model training (LLMs/VLMs/generative models), Simulation environment design, Sim-to-real transfer, Trajectory collection, Pipeline setup

Preferred skills

Robotics simulators (Isaac Sim, MuJoCo), Large-scale RL infrastructure (Ray), Open VLA frameworks (OpenVLA, Physical Intelligence)

Responsibilities

Train language- and vision-conditioned manipulation policies with RL in simulation and real world; Build diverse manipulation task suites in simulation; Collect trajectories for behaviour cloning; Set up real-world RL training pipelines; Develop sim-to-real transfer methods

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC