# Applied Robot Learning Engineer / RL Specialist

Job Description Applied Robot Learning Engineer/RL Specialist Focus: Reinforcement Learning & Policy Optimization About the Role We are looking for an experienced applied robotics/robot learning engineer with strong reinforcement learning expertise and hands-on experience deploying learning-based policies for complex manufacturing tasks. The role primarily focuses on improving the performance of VLA/world models, addressing sim-to-real challenges, and developing robust and scalable policies for manipulation, failure recovery, and optimal execution. This is a hands-on role requiring real-world deployment experience, comfort working directly with robotic hardware, and the flexibility to support broader engineering and experimental tasks as project priorities evolve. The ideal candidate combines strong RL fundamentals with practical robotics engineering experience and some exposure to bimanual manipulation. Approximately 80% of the role will focus on applied engineering, policy implementation, robot experiments, evaluation, and deployment, with 20% dedicated to research and technical exploration. The emphasis is on translating RL methods into measurable improvements on physical robots

- **Id**: 4089616
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/general-motors-applied-robot-learning-engineer-rl-specialist>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mountain View, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T19:51:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T20:43:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8626
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Automotive Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 1705
- **Name**: General Motors
- **Domain**: gm.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/general-motors-europe>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 74
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.527
- **Repost share**: 0.027
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 16
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 153200
- **Max**: 234100
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 234100

## Technologies

- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Foxglove Studio** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **Imitation Learning** — Optional: no
- **PPO** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reward Modeling** — Optional: no
- **ROS** — Optional: no
- **Sim-to-Real** — Optional: no
- **Teleoperation** — Optional: no
- **Vision-Language-Action** — Optional: no
- **VLM** — Optional: no
- **World Models** — Optional: no
- **OpenVLA** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T19:51:52Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 795 · green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 795

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:5, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 234100
- **Is top pay**: yes

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