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Senior Reinforcement Learning Engineer

Apptronik · Sunnyvale, CA · HQ

CHECKED 12H AGO

Roboticsonsitesenior$230k–$260k
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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
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