
Reinforcement Learning Research Engineer
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About the Position
Join our Deep Learning Lab as a Reinforcement Learning Research Engineer to develop and evaluate robust and reproducible learned policies for sequential decisions under uncertainty.
Responsibilities
- Translate a control problem into environments, rewards, and measurable baselines.
- Run policy-training experiments with seed sweeps and held-out scenarios.
- Study reward exploitation, distribution shifts, and the limits of sim-to-real transfer.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience training and debugging reinforcement learning agents.
- Strong understanding of optimization, probability, and experimental design.
- Ability to implement research ideas in Python and explain when they do not work.
Useful Evidence
- A reproducible RL experiment, paper implementation, or deployed policy.
- Robotics, offline RL, and large-scale rollout infrastructure are useful experience.
Working Terms
- Startup culture, a goal-oriented team, and a research mindset.
- The opportunity to apply your engineering skills to tools and systems for fellow engineers and help shape the future of AI.
- Latest-generation MacBook Pro.
- An in-house GPU cluster for training and experimentation.
- 20 working days of annual leave.
- English courses, educational events, and conferences.
- Medical insurance.
Tools & Systems
- PyTorch
- Isaac Lab
- MuJoCo
- Ray
- Weights & Biases
Relevant experience matters more than knowing every tool listed.
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Location: Kyiv / remote
Experience: Senior
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