# Research Member of Technical Staff- Post-training & Robot Learning at Rhoda

- Company: Rhoda
- What the company does: Redefining Robotic Intelligence. Backed by Khosla.
- Company website: https://www.rhoda.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-05-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rhoda-ai/2be00e8d-a7dd-44a8-86f8-94a2b848c40e
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rhoda-research-member-of-technical-staff-post-training-and-robot-learning/

## About the role

Design and implement RL training pipelines to improve robot policy performance beyond what imitation learning alone achieves — reward design, online data collection, and policy optimization Develop and apply RL algorithms (PPO, GRPO, or similar) adapted to the video prediction setting, including reward modeling and feedback collection strategies for physical task performance

## What they're looking for

- Hands-on experience with robot systems, robotic policy learning, or autonomous systems in an industry or research setting (robotics, self-driving, or similar physical AI domains)
- Strong understanding of robot policy learning: imitation learning, behavior cloning, and how RL builds on top of it
- Practical familiarity with real robot hardware, deployment constraints, and sensor modalities (vision, proprioception)
- Solid ML skills with hands-on PyTorch experience
- Ability to diagnose policy failures, reason about distribution shift, and iterate effectively on data and training strategies
- Comfort with ambiguity and fast-changing research priorities

Tags: Research