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Senior RL Engineer - Robotic Manipulation & Post-Training

Walden Robotics

Walden Robotics in San Francisco, CA seeks an RL for Manipulation Engineer to advance reinforcement learning for contact-rich tasks on real hardware. You will own reward design, curriculum, and algorithm development in collaboration with the manipulation, controls, and simulation teams. The role requires rigorous experiments, scalable training, and transfer from simulation to robots, with mentorship of MTS engineers on the RL stack. #J-18808-Ljbffr Walden Robotics

Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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