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Reinforcement Learning Engineer – Whole Body Control

FigureSan Jose, California, United States · Posted 4 months ago
Full-timeEst. 250,000 USD
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Description

Figure is an AI Robotics company autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. The goal of the company is to ship humanoid robots with human level intelligence. Its robots are engineered to perform a variety of tasks in the home and commercial markets. We are based in North San Jose, CA and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration. It’s time to build.

We are looking for a Reinforcement Learning Engineer to develop, train, deploy, and evaluate advanced reinforcement learning algorithms for whole body control of our humanoid robot.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop, train, and deploy reinforcement learning algorithms for whole body control
  • Determine the observations, actions, and model types that unlock maximum performance
  • Identify and close the most important sim-to-real gaps
  • Define, test, and evaluate performance metrics for learned policies
  • Harden the control stack to ensure rock solid robustness

Requirements:

  • Strong background in dynamics and control, ideally of legged robots
  • Experience with reinforcement learning algorithms for robotics: PPO, SAC, etc
  • Experience tuning hyperparameters and cost functions for these RL algorithms
  • Familiarity with common RL techniques such as: domain randomization, curriculum learning, reward shaping, etc.
  • Capable of leading complex controls projects and mentoring junior engineers

Bonus Qualifications:

  • Experience with behavior cloning techniques (e.g. distillation)

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $150,000 and $350,000 annually.

The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.

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