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Reinforcement Learning Engineer – Whole Body Control

Figure is an AI Robotics company autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. The goal of the company is to ship humanoid robots with human level intelligence. Its robots are engineered to perform a variety of tasks in the home and commercia

Company

Figure

Location

San Jose, CA

Status

Open

Posted

2026-04-08T18:54:25+00:00

Figure is hiring a full-time reinforcement learning engineer in San Jose to work on whole-body control for a humanoid robot. The job involves developing, training, deploying and evaluating RL algorithms, choosing observations, actions and model types, closing sim-to-real gaps, defining policy metrics, and hardening the control stack. The posting seeks a background in dynamics and control, ideally legged robots, plus experience with PPO, SAC, tuning hyperparameters and cost functions, and techniques such as domain randomization, curriculum learning and reward shaping. The posted base salary is $150,000 to $350,000.