14 reinforcement learning engineer jobs at 7 companies in Boston, MA
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Member of Technical Staff – Senior Engineer, Reinforcement Learning – Policy Post-Training
Cambridge or San Francisco
$255k-$340k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Walden Robotics: Builds general-purpose robots and advances robot manipulation through research and development.
Hands-on RL experience for manipulation, sim-to-real transfer, reward and curriculum design, strong software engineering, and ability to run large-scale training and experiments.
Member of Technical Staff – Senior Engineer, Reinforcement Learning for Wholebody Control
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
$180k-$240k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Walden Robotics: A developing general-purpose robots and related control and simulation systems to improve quality of life.
Proven RL experience for continuous control, sim-to-real transfer on real robots, control theory knowledge, large-scale GPU simulation, strong Python and C++ skills, and software engineering for training/deployment pipelines.
Boston Dynamics: Building advanced mobile robots for industrial and warehouse automation.
3+ YOEMS with 3+ years or PhD in ML, Robotics; deployed policies on physical robots; RL toolbox and simulation expertise; PyTorch/JAX; software fundamentals
Member of Technical Staff – Senior Engineer, Reinforcement Learning – Policy Post-Training
San Francisco or Cambridge
$255k-$340k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Walden Robotics: Builds general-purpose robots and conducts research to advance manipulation and sim-to-real learning.
Proven RL experience on real-world or large-scale problems, manipulation and sim-to-real experience, strong software engineering and experimental ownership, ability to mentor engineers.
Reinforcement Learning & Controls Research Scientist- Spot Behavior
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
$177k-$225k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Boston Dynamics: Building advanced mobile robots for industrial and warehouse automation.
3+ YOEMS (required) in robotics/mechanical engineering/computer science or related; 3+ years deploying RL or learning-based control policies on hardware; strong classical control, real-time control experience; Python and C++ proficiency.
CVS HealthNYSE: CVS: Provides retail pharmacy, health insurance, and pharmacy benefit management services.
5+ YOE5+ years building ML systems in production, 5+ years Python, familiarity with PyTorch/TensorFlow, MLOps (Kubeflow, Vertex), 2+ years SQL with Snowflake/BigQuery, 2+ years system design leadership, experience in reinforcement learning/causal inference/LLMs, mentoring experience, strong communication.
Senior Software Machine Learning Engineer (Teradyne, North Reading, MA)
North Reading, Massachusetts, United States
$134k-$224k/yrOnsiteFull Time
TeradyneNASDAQ: TER: Designs and manufactures automated test equipment and advanced robotics systems.
5+ YOE5+ years ML experience, hands-on LLM fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, strong software engineering (Python), production ML deployment and monitoring, computer vision for inspection, customer-facing communication.
Software Machine Learning Engineer (North Reading, MA, US)
North Reading, Massachusetts, United States
$117k-$186k/yrOnsiteFull Time
TeradyneNASDAQ: TER: Designs and manufactures automated test equipment and advanced robotics systems.
2+ YOE2+ years ML experience, hands-on model building and deployment, experience with graph ML, reinforcement learning, interpretability (SHAP/LIME), MLOps exposure, strong collaboration and communication; MS/PhD preferred.
Applied Researcher I (AI Foundations, LLM Customization, Finetuning, Reinforcement Learning)
Cambridge or McLean or New York or San Jose
$219k-$272k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Capital OneNYSE: COF: Financial services offering credit cards, banking, and loans.
PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related field with start-date eligibility; or MS plus 2 years applied research experience; strong ML/NLP/AI foundation model expertise.
Applied Researcher I (AI Foundations, LLM Customization, Finetuning, Reinforcement Learning)
McLean or Cambridge or New York or San Jose
OnsiteFull Time
Capital OneNYSE: COF: Financial services offering credit cards, banking, and loans.
PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields; or MS with 2+ years applied research experience; expertise in AI foundations, LLMs, finetuning, RL; strong publications and open-source contributions.
Motional: Develops autonomous vehicle technology for driverless ride-hailing and delivery.
5+ YOE3+ Mgmt5+ years leading engineering teams in autonomous systems or AI; MS or PhD in CS/robotics/EE; expertise in imitation and reinforcement learning; experience with end-to-end planning and multimodal models.
Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Vision-Language-Action models, Large Driving Model, ML tooling