Open Role
Staff Reinforcement Learning Engineer – Whole Body Control
at Figure
San Jose, CA·Posted Apr 16
About the role
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 commercial markets. We are based in North San Jose, CA and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration. It’s time to build.
We are looking for a Reinforcement Learning Engineer to develop, train, deploy, and evaluate advanced reinforcement learning algorithms for whole body control of our humanoid robot.
Key Responsibilities:
• Develop, train, and deploy reinforcement learning algorithms for whole body control
• Determine the observations, actions, and model types that unlock maximum performance
• Identify and close the most important sim-to-real gaps
• Define, test, and evaluate performance metrics for learned policies
• Harden the control stack to ensure rock solid robustness
Requirements:
• Strong background in dynamics and control, ideally of legged robots
• Experience with reinforcement learning algorithms for robotics: PPO, SAC, etc
• Experience tuning hyperparameters and cost functions for these RL algorithms
• Familiarity with common RL techniques such as: domain randomization, curriculum learning, reward shaping, etc.
• Capable of leading complex controls projects and mentoring junior engineers
Bonus Qualifications:
• Experience with behavior cloning techniques (e.g. distillation)
The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $200,000 and $300,000 annually.
The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.
About Figure

Builds humanoid robot platforms.
View full profile →- HQ
- Sunnyvale, CA
- Stage
- Series C+
- Total Raised
- $2.5B
- Employees
- 201-1,000
- Founded
- 2022