Clera

Founding RL Engineer

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2 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$125k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build reinforcement learning environments, reward functions, and training pipelines.
  • Train and fine-tune models using PPO, GRPO, DPO, RLHF, and RLAIF.
  • Build evaluation frameworks for measuring model and agent performance.
  • Run experiments, analyze results, and guide research priorities.
  • Scale training across GPU clusters and maintain reliable pipelines.
  • Bring research ideas into production systems and establish engineering practices.
  • Contribute to hiring as the engineering team grows.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of hands-on experience in reinforcement learning or machine learning engineering.
  • Strong Python skills and deep experience with PyTorch or JAX.
  • Practical experience with policy gradient methods, reward modeling, RLHF, or similar techniques.
  • Experience with distributed training, GPU infrastructure, RL environments, reward functions, training pipelines, and model or agent evaluation.
  • A track record of turning research ideas into production systems.
  • A degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or a related field.
  • Experience with LLM post-training, agent training, simulation frameworks, or RL training libraries is a plus.
  • Graduate study is a plus.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • This is an on-site role in San Francisco, California.

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