Senior Reinforcement Learning Engineer
Apptronik · Austin, TX · HQ
CHECKED 13H AGO
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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