Staff Reinforcement Learning Engineer – Whole Body Control

Figure is an AI Robotics company autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. The goal of the company is to ship humanoid robots with human level intelligence. Its robots are engineered to perform a variety of tasks in the home and commercial markets. We are based in North San Jose, CA and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration. It’s time to build.

We are looking for a Staff Reinforcement Learning Engineer to develop, train, deploy, and evaluate advanced reinforcement learning algorithms for whole body control of our humanoid robot.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop, train, and deploy reinforcement learning algorithms for whole body control

Determine the observations, actions, and model types that unlock maximum performance

Identify and close the most important sim-to-real gaps

Define, test, and evaluate performance metrics for learned policies

Harden the control stack to ensure rock solid robustness

Requirements:

Strong background in dynamics and control, ideally of legged robots

Experience with reinforcement learning algorithms for robotics: PPO, SAC, etc

Experience tuning hyperparameters and cost functions for these RL algorithms

Familiarity with common RL techniques such as: domain randomization, curriculum learning, reward shaping, etc.

Capable of leading complex controls projects and mentoring junior engineers

Bonus Qualifications:

Experience with behavior cloning techniques (e.g. distillation)

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $150,000 and $250,000 annually.

The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.