Figure · 1 month ago
Senior Reinforcement Learning Engineer, Helix
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$150K/yr - $400K/yr
5+ years expFigure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid. They are seeking a Senior Reinforcement Learning Engineer to own the development, training, and deployment of reinforcement learning algorithms for their humanoid robot.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)HardwareIndustrial AutomationRobotics
Responsibilities
Develop, train, and deploy reinforcement learning algorithms for locomotion and manipulation tasks
Build simulation infrastructure to support the training of locomotion and manipulation policies for a general purpose humanoid robot at a large scale
Collaborate with the controls team to integrate policies into the existing control stack
Define, test, and evaluate performance metrics for learned policies
Qualification
Required
Confident writing production quality code in PyTorch
Familiar with online and offline reinforcement learning algorithms: 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
Familiarity with general ML evaluation tools such as TensorBoard, Weights&Biases, etc
Strong mix of industry and research experience, ideally 5-7+ years of experience
Preferred
Experience transferring policies learned in simulation to robot hardware
Experience training locomotion policies for quadrupedal or bipedal robots
Company
Figure
Figure is an AI robotics company that develops autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$1.85BKey Investors
Parkway Venture CapitalIntel CapitalBrett Adcock
2025-09-16Series C· $1B
2024-02-24Series B· $675M
2023-07-17Series Unknown· $9M
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