# Reinforcement Learning Engineer, Grasping at Persona AI

- Company: Persona AI
- What the company does: Backed by 500 Global.
- Company website: https://personastudios.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Houston
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-06-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/persona.ai/2e1ad9ed-cc2e-436d-93eb-76a5bff239c8
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/persona-ai-reinforcement-learning-engineer-grasping/

## About the role

We are looking for a Reinforcement Learning Engineer to join our Manipulation team, focused on dexterous grasping. Our goal is to ship capable, reliable grasping policies on real hardware with high-DOF robotic hands. We are looking for someone who can follow recent advances in reinforcement learning and related learning-based methods, judge what is practically useful, and adapt those ideas on our platform.

## What they're looking for

- BS, MS, or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation, exceptional recent graduates from relevant research labs will be considered
- Demonstrated ability to read, understand, and implement ideas from recent robotics and machine learning research
- Hands-on experience training RL agents for robotic manipulation tasks, including reward shaping and policy evaluation
- Experience with sim-to-real transfer: domain randomization, physics tuning, or real-world policy validation on hardware
- Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX), along with RL libraries such as rsl_rl or skrl

Tags: Persona AI