Reinforcement Learning (RL) Engineer Manipulation
London Based (5 days in office)
Competitive salary
A high-profile robotics organization is urgently seeking a high-caliber RL Engineer (Manipulation) to join their London-based R&D team. This role is pivotal in bridging the gap between simulation and real-world application, focusing on the development of language-vision conditioned policies for next-generation intelligent robotic platforms.
As a RL Engineer you will have the following responsibilities
- Sim-to-Real Transfer: Developing manipulation tasks in simulators (Isaac Sim/MuJoCo) and successfully deploying trained policies onto physical hardware.
- VLA Policy Development: Training Vision-Language-Action models via RL to enable robots to execute actions based on visual and linguistic context.
- Trajectory Scaling: Collaborating with teleops teams to transform human trajectories into robust robotic skills through behavior cloning.
- High-Performance Engineering: Designing and profiling research-grade PyTorch/JAX code to support large-scale, distributed RL infrastructure.
Essential Skills Needed
- Deep Learning Mastery: 5+ years building and shipping models, with deep hands-on expertise in LLMs, VLMs, or generative architectures.
- Industry Experience: 3+ years of commercial experience delivering production-grade AI solutions.
- RL Expert: A proven track record of solving complex, real-world problems using Deep Reinforcement Learning.
- Technical Rigour: Mastery of Python and PyTorch/JAX, including the ability to profile performance and debug complex numerical stability issues.
- Robotics Foundation: Practical experience with simulators (Isaac Sim/MuJoCo) and a deep understanding of sim-to-real bottlenecks.
Competitive Package | Central London 5 days in office | collaborative working environment | fantastic benefits | Cutting-Edge Hardware
If you are looking to join a high-profile robotics organization and make a tangible impact on the future of LLMs and Embodied AI, this is the ideal opportunity for you. To discuss this role further, please apply directly to this advert or send your CV to Iram.Shariff@randstaddigital.com.
Randstad Technologies Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT & Engineering industries. Please note that due to a high level of applications, we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
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