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).
22 AI roles tagged rl_robotics.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | Senior Research Scientist, Multimodal Foundation Models and Robotics | Semiconductors | 10 | Multimodal · Embodied AI · Frontier research · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| NVIDIA | Research Scientist, Generalist Embodied Agent Research - PhD New College Grad 2026 | Semiconductors | 10 | Embodied AI · Agent research · Multimodal · Model serving · Inference infra · Synthetic data |
| NVIDIA | Senior Research Scientist, Multimodal Foundation Models and Robotics | Semiconductors | 10 | Multimodal · Embodied AI · Frontier research · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Vision |
| Intel | AI Research and Development Engineer (Physical AI) | Semiconductors | 9 | Vision · Embodied AI · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Inference infra |
| NVIDIA | Senior Machine Learning and Simulation Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles | Semiconductors | 9 | Embodied AI · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Inference infra · Multimodal · Evals |
| NVIDIA | Research Scientist, Generative AI for Physical AI - PhD New College Grad 2026 | Semiconductors | 9 | Multimodal · Vision · Embodied AI · Pretraining · Fine-tuning |
| NVIDIA | Senior System Software Engineer, Robotics | Semiconductors | 8 | Embodied AI · Model serving · Inference infra |
| NVIDIA | Senior Research Engineer, Robotics Systems | Semiconductors | 8 | Embodied AI · Model serving · Inference infra · Multimodal |
| Intel | Embodied AI Robot System Intern | Semiconductors | 8 | Embodied AI · Agent orchestration · Vision · Multimodal · Fine-tuning · Evals |
| NVIDIA | Senior Software Engineer - Robotics | Semiconductors | 8 | Embodied AI · Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Intel | Physical AI Engineer | Semiconductors | 8 | Embodied AI · Vision · Multimodal · Inference infra · Model serving |
| NVIDIA | Senior Solutions Architect – Simulation Solutions 3D Reconstruction | Semiconductors | 8 | Inference infra · Model serving · Embodied AI |
| NVIDIA | Solution Architecture Intern, AI in Industry - 2026 | Semiconductors | 8 | Inference infra · Model serving · Fine-tuning · Multimodal · Audio & speech |
| NVIDIA | Senior Software Engineer, Robotics - Isaac Lab | Semiconductors | 8 | Embodied AI · Multi-agent |
| NVIDIA | Software Engineering Manager, Robotics | Semiconductors | 8 | Embodied AI · Model serving · Inference infra · Sim-to-real |
| NVIDIA | Senior Research Engineer, Simulation | Semiconductors | 8 | Embodied AI · Sim-to-real |
| AMD | Principal Robotics Simulation Architect | Semiconductors | 7 | Embodied AI · Agent orchestration · Synthetic data · Inference infra · Model serving |
| NVIDIA | Senior System Software Engineer, Robotics | Semiconductors | 7 | Embodied AI · Agent orchestration |
| NVIDIA | AI Developer Technology Engineer | Semiconductors | 7 | Embodied AI |
| NVIDIA | Senior Robotics DevTech Engineer | Semiconductors | 7 | Synthetic data · Embodied AI |
| NVIDIA | Software Engineer, Robotics - Isaac Lab | Semiconductors | 7 | Embodied AI · Fine-tuning |
| NVIDIA | Senior System Software Engineer - Robotics | Semiconductors | 7 | Embodied AI · Agent orchestration · Model serving · Inference infra |