Acceler8 Talent · 1 week ago
Senior Research Scientist
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$200K/yr - $300K/yrAcceler8 Talent is building AI systems with general physical ability and is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to develop reinforcement learning systems for real-world experimentation. The role involves creating RL environments, developing safe RL strategies, and collaborating with various teams to integrate RL agents into live systems.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Kirstie Moffat
Responsibilities
Create and maintain RL environments for optimizing tools, experiments, and process workflows using both simulations and digital twins
Develop safe RL strategies, reward structures integrated with verifiers, and frameworks for moving from offline training to robust online behavior
Define state and action representations and enforce constraints for reliable, long-horizon decision-making
Partner with LLM researchers, agent engineers, and simulation teams to integrate RL agents into live experimental systems
Qualification
Required
Expertise in reinforcement learning, optimal control, or sequential decision-making, with experience applying RL to complex real or simulated systems
Familiarity with safe RL, constrained RL, verifier/detector integration, or multi-step policy evaluation frameworks
Demonstrated ability to build RL environments, design reward structures, and diagnose policy behavior at scale
Comfortable working across ML, simulation, systems engineering, and physical-toolchain interfaces in a fast-paced research environment
Benefits
Meaningful equity
Ownership of cutting-edge RL systems deployed in real-world experimental workflows
Work at the cutting edge of AI, robotics, and experimental science
Contribute to building the world’s first physical superintelligence
Company
Acceler8 Talent
Acceler8 Talent partners with technology companies to propel their funding and business forward.
Founded in 2019
11-50 employees
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