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Senior Reinforcement Learning Engineer

Apptronik · Austin, TX · HQ

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Drive world-class locomotion and manipulation on humanoid robot Apollo.
  • Take RL policies from simulation to robust deployment on physical hardware.
  • Translate human mocap and teleoperation into reference trajectories for RL.

Ideal candidate

Hands-on roboticist with deep RL expertise who thrives taking learning from sim to real humanoids and mentoring others to push world-class performance.

Requirements

  • 5+ years hands-on expertise with RL frameworks and physics simulators
  • Mastery of Python for prototyping and proficiency in C++ for deployment
  • Experience building or utilizing large-scale distributed training pipelines
  • Strong understanding of modern RL including imitation, model-based and sim-to-real
  • Intuition for robot dynamics and controls theory
  • 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
  • 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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