Real-World Robotics RL Research Engineer
Pantograph
Pantograph is looking for research engineers to build robots that learn through exploration in the real world. Ideal candidates will have strong foundations in reinforcement learning and experience working with large GPU clusters, Kubernetes, and complex distributed systems. We value both formal credentials and practical experience, including open-source contributions and personal projects. This position requires working in person in San Francisco. #J-18808-Ljbffr Pantograph
$100k - $120k
Coda Robotics is developing infrastructure to power the next generation of robotic foundation... ...is scarce and expensive to collect. World models pose a promosing avenue to... .... Responsibilities Lead a team of researchers and engineers. Develop more efficient ways to generate...Suggested$350k
...a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders... ...evaluations that make Claude effective at real-world professional workflows — searching,... ...scale. Experience building or operating RL environments, agent harnesses, or LLM...SuggestedVisa sponsorshipShift work$250k - $300k
...Bots, we're revolutionizing real-world automation by making robotic systems accessible to... ...ll work closely with our engineering team to design, implement... ...robotics Have experience with RL (reinforcement learning)... ...in implementing ML research papers and adapting academic...SuggestedFull time$155k - $269k
...leader in Physical AI. With a world‑class team, we are unlocking... ...and efficient simulation. As a Research Engineer in the World Models team, you... ...model deployment in robotics. Qualifications Strong software... ...efficiency, and robustness for real‑world applications. Team player...SuggestedFull timeWork at officeWork from homeFlexible hours- ...is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders... ...build beneficial AI systems. About the RL Teams Our Reinforcement Learning teams... ...to write, edit, test, debug, and ship real software — end to end, on real codebases...SuggestedVisa sponsorship
- ...“control plane” for the physical world. We are starting with protecting... ...ultimately become the perception engine for a company’s physical footprint, enabling real-time perimeter visibility, autonomous... ...world of physical AI and robotics. We are a small, fast growing team...
- Slope in San Francisco, CA is looking for a Research Engineer / Scientist to advance research and development of machine learning models. This dynamic role involves owning a research agenda, collaborating with teams, and building robust models for evaluation. The ideal...Relocation package
$310k
About the Team The RL and Reasoning team drives the core reasoning... ...of reinforcement learning research, building next-generation generative... ...About the Role As a Research Engineer/Research Scientist at OpenAI,... ...to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an...Work at officeRelocation package$250k - $350k
..., California, Turing is the world’s leading research accelerator for frontier AI... ...and reinforcement learning (RL) environments that power post... ...: Environments for Software Engineering / coding agents UI-Environments... ...design and post-training. Real impact: your environments...Flexible hours- General Analysis, based in San Francisco, is seeking a Research Engineer to lead efforts in post-training models and adversarial simulations... ...be innovative and results-oriented, eager to engage with real-world AI security challenges while collaborating with a talented team...
- ...Domain Scaling team focused on fine-tuning language models for real-world applications. You will manage data strategies, vendor... ...reinforcement learning and be eager to contribute to applied research that enhances AI systems across sectors like finance and healthcare...
- ...Physical AI system — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles,... ...it. Our open‑source engine, Daft, is the... ...Perplexity. We've assembled a world‑class team from AWS, Render... .... Your Role As a Research Engineer on the Visual... ...these models at scale on real video and sensor data,...Hourly payWork at officeFlexible hoursNight shift1 day per week
$200k - $350k
...Applied AI lab building World Models for highly... ...founders, engineers that made 100+ games... ...time optimization for real-time generation. Your... ...environments. Our current research spans: Distributed... ..., world models, or RL systems. Strong... .... Prior work in robotics, multi-agent systems...Visa sponsorshipRelocation package$200k - $350k
Roam is seeking talented engineers to work on AI-driven world generation and game development. This role focuses on building efficient pipelines for real-time generation and orchestration across 3D environments. Candidates should have a strong foundation in software engineering...- Slope is looking for a Research Engineer in San Francisco to innovate and build state-of-the-art speech models for real-world applications. This role requires a Master's/PhD in a relevant field and 5+ years of engineering experience, focusing on deep learning and AI technologies...
- ...a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders... ...Scaling team has the goal to make Claude world-class at real-world knowledge work in domains like... ...the end-to-end process of creating RL environments for new capabilities:...
$160k - $240k
Research Engineer — Evals Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) OR Remote (Americas... ...datasets that cover the real distribution of what our... ...Close the loop with models and RL. Evals here aren't a reporting... ...You've worked with messy, real-world data before. You understand...Full timeTemporary workWork at officeRemote work$155k - $269k
A pioneering autonomous vehicle company in San Francisco is seeking a Research Engineer to develop advanced world models for autonomous systems. The role requires strong programming skills in Python and experience with generative models. You will collaborate with experts...Flexible hours$275k - $315k
...AMD. We are partnering with researchers, engineers, and organizations who share... ...'ll Do Design and implement RL‑based systems for compiler optimization... ...improve continuously from real production workloads Work... ...signals, and huge real‑world impact. You'll get the freedom...Full timeWork at officeRelocation package- .... We see exactly where research meets production and where... ...in Sequences in real time. This is the most... ...rewards. Offline-to-online RL on multi-touch trajectories... ...elite and competitive engineering minds. Translate... ...systems; RL applied to real-world agent behavior;...Relocation
$180k - $270k
Research Engineer (Focused on RL) You'll bring reinforcement learning to Firecrawl's core product — building... ...RL approaches. You're fluent in both worlds. You understand PPO, RLHF, reward... ...benchmarks. You've deployed models that serve real traffic and you've made hard...Full timeTemporary workRemote work- Research Engineer, Virtual Collaborator at Anthropic - San Francisco, CA | New... ...targeted training on real organizational data and workflows... ...pragmatic approach to solving real‑world problems Are comfortable... ...preventing reward hacking in RL systems Translating product...Work at officeVisa sponsorshipFlexible hours
- ...team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies... ...About the Role As a Research Engineer at Mercor, you’ll work at the... ...tool use, agentic behavior, and real-world reasoning. You’ll design and... ...generation, rubric design, or RL‑style workflows that use...Work at office
- ...Sieve is a multi-modal lab curating the world's highest-quality training datasets —... ...creativity, communication, gaming, AR/VR, and robotics. Sieve exists to solve the biggest... .... About the Role As an applied research engineer at Sieve, you’ll build high performance...
- General Analysis is a security research lab focused on adversarial... ...Francisco and work across research, engineering, and product. About the role... ...comfortable with PyTorch, RL infrastructure, post-training... ...and new technology to real-world problems. You are excited to...
$350k
...for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the RL Teams Our Reinforcement Learning teams lead Anthropic's reinforcement learning...Work at officeVisa sponsorshipFlexible hours$350k
Menlo Ventures is looking for a Research Engineer for their Code RL team. This role focuses on advancing AI models' coding capabilities while ensuring safety and performance in output. The successful candidate should have expertise in machine learning frameworks and a Bachelor...Work at officeFlexible hours- United States Digital Space LLC in San Francisco is hiring a Research Engineer for the Code RL team. This position aims to enhance AI models' software capabilities using deep Python expertise. The role involves designing RL environments, managing training experiments, and...
$310k
Dormont Manufacturing Co is seeking a Research Engineer/Research Scientist based in San Francisco, CA. This role involves advancing AI alignment... ...methods. Ideal candidates have a strong background in RL, are proficient coders, and thrive in dynamic, technically complex...- ...AI Research Engineer (Robot Learning) San Francisco AI & Software In office Full-time... ...bring a new level of AI embodiment to the real world. As an AI Research Engineer (Robot... ...and ROS2 experience Experience with RL fine-tuning of generative models Experience...Full timeWork at officeImmediate start
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