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Senior AI Research Scientist (Model-based RL)

About Phaidra Phaidra is building the future of industrial automation. The world today is filled with static, monolithic infrastructure. Factories, power plants, buildings, etc. operate the same they've operated for decades — because the co

Company

Phaidra

Location

Remote - United Kingdom

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-20T04:04:47+00:00

Phaidra builds AI control systems for industrial facilities, and this role sits in its research team. The scientist designs, implements and evaluates model-based reinforcement learning agents, including planning-based controllers such as MPC and MPPI, and develops learned dynamics and world models with the training pipelines around them. The posting asks for a PhD or equivalent experience, with 2+ years post-PhD or 5+ years post-Master's research experience, depth in model-based RL and control theory, and hands-on work closing the sim-to-real gap. The hire mentors research engineers and owns a research area.