Reinforcement learning applied to robot control — manipulation, locomotion, dexterity — typically trained in simulation and transferred to real hardware. Primary AI lifecycle stage: application.
106 active AI roles across 32 companies in our index reference RL robotics as of today. New postings fell 21% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (42 → 33).
The companies with the most active RL robotics listings are: Amazon (27 roles), NVIDIA (13 roles), Google (11 roles), Figure AI (5 roles), Meta (5 roles).
RL robotics primarily belongs to the application stage of the AI lifecycle. In current hiring, RL robotics roles concentrate at: agents (41%), application (19%).
The sectors with the most active RL robotics hiring are: Big Tech, Robotics, Semiconductors.
Reinforcement learning applied to robot control — manipulation, locomotion, dexterity — typically trained in simulation and transferred to real hardware.
Primary AI lifecycle stage: application.
As of today, 106 active AI roles across 32 companies in our index reference RL robotics. Hiring concentrates at the agents (41%) and application (19%) stages. Most common sectors: Big Tech, Robotics, Semiconductors. New postings fell 21% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (42 → 33).
69 AI roles tagged rl_robotics.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Staff Software Engineer, Cognitive Architecture, Special Projects | Big Tech | 10 | Interpretability · Agent orchestration · Agent research · Audio & speech · Model serving · Evals | |
| Research Scientist, Robotics, DeepMind | Big Tech | 10 | Embodied AI · Agent research · Agent orchestration · Vision · Multimodal · Fine-tuning | |
| Meta | Research Scientist – World Models, Robotics & Embodied AI | Big Tech | 10 | Embodied AI · Agent research · Multimodal · Vision · Synthetic data · Model serving |
| Amazon | Applied Scientist, Safe RL, Robotics, SAF Lab | Big Tech | 9 | Embodied AI |
| Amazon | Senior Applied Scientist, Safe Locomotion, Compass | Big Tech | 9 | Embodied AI · Model serving |
| Research Scientist, Robotics, DeepMind | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Embodied AI · Vision · Multimodal · Frontier research · Fine-tuning · Evals | |
| Amazon | ML Engineer, Fauna | Big Tech | 9 | Embodied AI · Vision · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Research Scientist, Robotics, Embodied AI, DeepMind | Big Tech | 9 | Embodied AI · Vision · Agent orchestration · Multimodal | |
| Microsoft | Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Robot Learning) | Big Tech | 9 | Embodied AI · Vision · Multimodal · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Evals |
| Amazon | Applied scientist, Agentic AI, AWS Agentic AI | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Multimodal · Vision |
| Amazon | Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics | Big Tech | 9 | Vision · Multimodal · Embodied AI · Fine-tuning |
| Amazon | Senior Applied Scientist, AWS Quick | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · Evals · Multimodal · Embodied AI |
| Amazon | Robotics/AI Motor Control Scientist, Fauna | Big Tech | 9 | Embodied AI |
| Amazon | Applied Scientist II, Foundation Model, Robotics | Big Tech | 9 | Embodied AI · Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Multimodal · Vision · Synthetic data |
| Amazon | Robotics/AI Motor Control Scientist, Fauna | Big Tech | 9 | Embodied AI |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Model serving · Inference infra · Fine-tuning · Evals · Audio & speech | |
| Amazon | Member of Technical Staff - Machine Learning, Frontier AI Robotics | Big Tech | 9 | Embodied AI · Synthetic data · Multimodal · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Amazon | Senior Applied scientist, Agentic AI, AWS Agentic AI | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal · Vision · Agent research |
| Amazon | Senior Applied Scientist, Shopping Core Foundations - BuyForMe | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Evals · Guardrails · Multimodal · Agent research · Embodied AI |
| Research Scientist, Robotics, Embodied AI, DeepMind | Big Tech | 9 | Embodied AI · Agent orchestration · Vision · Multimodal · Fine-tuning · Model serving | |
| Amazon | Sr. Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics | Big Tech | 9 | Agent research · Frontier research · Embodied AI · Fine-tuning · Interpretability |
| Meta | AI Research Scientist, Robotics | Big Tech | 9 | Embodied AI · Multimodal · Fine-tuning |
| Amazon | Applied scientist, Agentic AI, AWS Agentic AI | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Multimodal · Vision · Embodied AI |
| ByteDance | Research Engineer – Reinforcement Learning (RL) Systems & Infrastructure (Seed Infra) | Big Tech | 9 | Model serving · Inference infra |
| Amazon | Member of Technical Staff, AGI Autonomy | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Embodied AI · LLM observability · Synthetic data |
| Meta | AI Research Scientist, Robotics | Big Tech | 9 | Embodied AI · Multimodal · Vision |
| Amazon | 2026 Applied Science Internship - United States, PhD Student Science Recruiting, Frontier AI & Robotics | Big Tech | 9 | Agent research · Multimodal · Vision · Embodied AI · Frontier research · Fine-tuning |
| Amazon | Member of Technical Staff Intern (2026), Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) | Big Tech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · LLM observability |
| Amazon | Member of Technical Staff - Reinforcement Learning (Infrastructure), AGI Autonomy | Big Tech | 9 | Inference infra · Model serving |
| Meta | Research Scientist Intern, Robotic Control Policy (PhD) | Big Tech | 9 | Embodied AI |