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Reinforcement Learning Engineer, Whole Body Control

Figure AI · San Jose, CA · HQ

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Roboticsonsite$150k–$350k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Develop advanced reinforcement learning for whole-body humanoid control.
  • Ship general-purpose humanoids that work in homes and commercial spaces.
  • Define metrics and harden control stack for rock-solid robustness.

Ideal candidate

A controls-oriented roboticist who loves taking learned locomotion from sim to real hardware and leading complex projects. You care about robust humanoid performance and mentoring others to advance human-level intelligence.

Requirements

  • Strong background in dynamics and control, ideally of legged robots
  • Experience with reinforcement learning algorithms for robotics such as PPO, SAC
  • Experience tuning hyperparameters and cost functions for RL algorithms
  • Familiarity with domain randomization, curriculum learning, reward shaping
  • Able to lead complex controls projects and mentor junior engineers
remote policy
5 days/week in-office

Lab profile

About Figure AI

AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots.

What they build

  • Autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots

Known for

  • Autonomous humanoid manipulation
  • Visuomotor robot learning (Helix)
  • Scalable manufacturing and field deployment

Key facts

  • Headquartered in San Jose, CA
  • Data operations in São Paulo, Brazil
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