# Reinforcement Learning Researcher

About the company Our client is a technology company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead a research agenda in offline reinforcement learning, taking ideas from initial question through to shared findings. The position prizes scientific depth and judgment over engineering breadth, and pairs you with a more established colleague while leaving space to chart your own path. What you'll do - Drive offline reinforcement learning research from start to finish, including choosing which questions to pursue and communicating the outcomes. - Raise the performance of learned control policies on internal evaluation suites and build on earlier policy work. - Train models on large, uneven-quality collections of data where feedback is scarce, applying several value estimation approaches. - Investigate model-based methods and learned environment models for continuous control. - Examine what keeps reinforcement learning training stable as data, compute and model scale increase. - Design rigorous experiments with dependable baselines and watch findings get tested on physical robots. Requirements What we're looking for - Background in reinforcement learning resea

- **Id**: 4103665
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/raydar-reinforcement-learning-researcher-2>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T22:11:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T22:11:00Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2332
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- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4478753
- **Name**: Raydar
- **Domain**: raydar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/raydar-com>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 22
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 350000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 350000

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: yes
- **Sim-to-Real** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T22:11:00Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 32; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 32 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: conf:2, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T01:09:53Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 350000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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