Reflex Robotics · 5 months ago
Principal AI Research Engineer - RL
NYC | SF
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/StaffReflex Robotics is a startup focused on building affordable wheeled humanoid robots for manufacturing and logistics. They are seeking a Principal AI Research Engineer specialized in reinforcement learning to develop robust robot policies and enhance their AI systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Robotics
Responsibilities
Work on creating robust robot policies
Re-implement core RL algorithms (SAC, DDPG) from scratch and debug unstable gradients / tune hyperparameters correctly
Make meaningful intellectual contributions to sample-efficient RL algorithms (e.g., DreamerV3 and MuZero)
Ship on-policy RL on hardware that learns in the real-world (e.g., for quadruped walking or drone racing)
Qualification
Required
You've re-implemented core RL algorithms (SAC, DDPG) from scratch and can debug unstable gradients / tune hyperparameters correctly
You've made meaningful intellectual contributions to sample-efficient RL algorithms (e.g., DreamerV3 and MuZero)
You've shipped on-policy RL on hardware that learns in the real-world (e.g., for quadruped walking or drone racing)
Company
Reflex Robotics
Reflex Robotics creates affordable general-purpose robots to free humanity from the pain of boring and repetitive work
Founded in 2022
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$7.3MKey Investors
Khosla Ventures
2023-09-02Seed· $7.3M
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