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Helix AI Engineer, Reinforcement Learning

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1 month ago
San Jose, CA, USASenior

Base Salary

$200k - $400k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement reinforcement learning algorithms for embodied agents in simulated and real-world environments.
  • Train policies using interaction, feedback, and large-scale experience across diverse tasks.
  • Develop reward modeling, credit assignment, exploration, online RL, offline RL, and robustness strategies.
  • Build scalable RL training systems with distributed rollouts, simulation infrastructure, and experiment management.
  • Design evaluation frameworks for policy performance, stability, and generalization.
  • Collaborate with pretraining, video, generative, agent, and robot learning teams to integrate RL into the autonomy stack.

Requirements

  • Experience developing and applying reinforcement learning algorithms in complex environments.
  • Strong understanding of policy optimization, value methods, and model-based reinforcement learning.
  • Experience training policies in simulation and/or real-world systems.
  • Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
  • Experience with large-scale experimentation and distributed training systems.
  • Strong experimental rigor, learning-system diagnosis, and improvement skills.
  • Solid software engineering skills for building scalable and reliable systems.
  • Ability to work independently and drive ambiguous, high-impact technical problems.
  • Bonus qualifications include experience with robotics, control systems, embodied AI, offline RL, imitation learning, hybrid learning, reward modeling, human-in-the-loop learning, robotics simulation or deployment, leading AI labs, or relevant publications.

Benefits

  • Full-time position requiring five days per week of in-office collaboration in San Jose, California.
  • Total compensation may include additional components and benefits depending on the specific role.

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