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).
1 AI role tagged rl_robotics.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merck | Enterprise Data Access Product Owner | Pharma | 5 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Vision · Audio & speech · Frontier research · Interpretability · Synthetic data · Agent research · RL post-training · RLHF · Reward modeling · Embodied AI |