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True Talent Solutions Partners

Founding RL Engineer

San Francisco

Python · TensorFlow · Keras

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join an early-stage AI company as its first engineering hire, building reinforcement learning environments and AI agents. You will work closely with the co-founders, shape technical direction, and help grow the engineering team.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Build reinforcement learning environments and tasks using voice and enterprise data.
  • Develop and deploy AI agents for enterprise customers.
  • Partner with the co-founders on technical direction and product roadmaps.
  • Lead engineering as the team grows, balancing fast delivery with high-quality work.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  • Typically 3 or more years of experience in reinforcement learning or AI agent development, or 6 to 12 months building RL environments or data as a recent graduate.
  • Experience building coding RL environments and shipping AI agents into production, with strong reinforcement learning fundamentals.
  • Professional experience with Python and PyTorch or JAX, and hands-on use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.
  • Experience training models with policy gradient methods, reward modeling, RLHF, or related approaches.
  • Full-stack experience with TypeScript and AWS; experience with mobile development, distributed training, GPU infrastructure, or LLM post-training is a plus.
  • Familiarity with environment frameworks such as Gymnasium, Ray RLlib, Isaac, or MuJoCo, and training libraries such as TRL, verl, or OpenRLHF is helpful.
  • Strong shipping record in a startup or AI lab environment; a related degree or relevant open-source work or publications is valued.
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