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1X · 7 months ago

Research Engineer, Reinforcement Learning

positionPalo Alto, California, United States
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityMid Level
money$130K/yr - $250K/yr
date4+ years exp

1X is a company focused on developing advanced humanoid robots for household use. They are seeking a Research Engineer in Reinforcement Learning to teach their robot, NEO, new capabilities through RL algorithms, ensuring safety and robustness.

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Responsibilities

Full-stack engineering, from data engineering to model architecture design to shipping polished products
Train NEO to do a diverse set of manipulation and locomotion tasks
Close the sim2real gap between policies trained in simulation and real
Work with controls, QA, and data collection teams to ship RL policies to the production fleet
Deploy skills trained with RL into home environments

Qualification

Python programmingReinforcement LearningDeep RLSimulators MujocoSimulators PybulletSimulators Isaac SimRobotics knowledgeEmpirical research abilitiesPerformance bottlenecks analysisTuning reward functionsHyperparameters tuningExploration strategies

Required

4+ years of Python programming experience
Strong empirical research abilities and a keen eye for spotting performance bottlenecks in RL training
Experience with tuning reward functions, hyperparameters and exploration strategies to solve complex tasks with deep RL
Experience with authoring environments and benchmarks in simulators like Mujoco, Pybullet, or Isaac Sim

Preferred

Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Computer Science or related field
Published RL research in top ML conferences (NeurIPS, CoRL, RSS, ICML, etc.)
Have trained real-world quadruped or biped locomotion with RL
Robotics and control theory knowledge

Benefits

Stock options
Benefits

Company

1X

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1X is an engineering and robotics company that develops humanoid robots designed to work alongside humans.
dateFounded in 2014
location
Moss, Ostfold, NOR
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
https://www.1x.tech

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Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$136.49M
Key Investors
EQT VenturesOpenAI Startup Fund
2025-07-07Series B
2024-01-11Series B· $99.94M
2024-01-11Secondary Market

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