Senior Reinforcement Learning Engineer
Apptronik · Sunnyvale, CA · HQ
CHECKED 12H AGO
Roboticsonsitesenior$230k–$260k
At a glance
Highlights
- Push Apollo humanoid to world-class locomotion and manipulation on real hardware.
- Drive full cycle from simulation prototyping to robust transfer on physical robots.
- Translate human mocap and teleoperation into robust reference trajectories.
Ideal candidate
A hands-on roboticist obsessed with seeing learning work on real hardware. You love rapid iteration, system-level problem solving, and mentoring others to push humanoids further.
Requirements
- 5+ years hands-on expertise with RL frameworks (PyTorch, JAX) and physics simulators (MuJoCo, IsaacGym)
- Mastery of Python for prototyping and strong proficiency in C++ for deployable code
- Experience building or using large-scale distributed training pipelines
- Deep theory in modern RL including imitation learning, model-based RL and sim-to-real transfer
- Intuition for robot dynamics and controls to guide learning-based approaches
- PhD or MS in Computer Science, Robotics or related field with 2+ years industry experience preferred
- Proven track record deploying learning-based policies on physical robots, especially legged robots or manipulators
- Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers
Lab profile
About Apptronik
Human-centered robotics company building AI-powered humanoid robot Apollo for manufacturing, logistics, and beyond.
What they build
- Apollo humanoid robot
Known for
- Applied AI
- Full-stack humanoid robotics
- Human-robot interaction
- Humanoid controls