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Staff / Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Reinforcement Learning

Sunnyvale, California USA · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026

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About the job

Advance reinforcement learning for end-to-end driving models, from identifying behavioral gaps and running experiments to evaluating and integrating improved policies into production driving systems.

What you'll do

  • Shape and execute the reinforcement learning roadmap, with measurable behavioral goals.
  • Develop and evaluate reward-guided and post-behavior-cloning methods, training workflows, and reward models.
  • Define evaluation evidence and productionize successful methods; provide technical leadership through reviews and mentoring.

What they ask for

  • Strong track record developing and experimentally validating reinforcement learning or related sequential decision-making methods on complex, high-dimensional problems.
  • Deep understanding of reinforcement learning fundamentals, including policy and value learning, off-policy learning, function approximation, distribution shift, and learned-objective failure modes.
  • Hands-on experience with behaviour cloning, reinforcement learning, or related methods.
  • Proficiency in Python and PyTorch, strong software engineering practices, and experience building reliable ML training and evaluation systems.

Nice to have

  • Experience with offline reinforcement learning, imitation learning, reward modeling, preference learning, or post-training large neural policies.
  • Experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, control, or other safety-critical physical systems.

Tools

Python, PyTorch, C++, CUDA

AI focus

Develop reinforcement-learning methods and reward-guided optimization for end-to-end autonomous-driving policies, including a learned emergency trajectory model and evaluation for safe deployment.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 6, 2026 (UTC)