Reinforcement Learning Engineer, Whole Body Control
Figure AI · San Jose, CA · HQ
CHECKED 5H AGO
Roboticsonsite$150k–$350k
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