# Member of Technical Staff — Robotics (Reinforcement Learning) at Sentient Machines

- Company: Sentient Machines
- What the company does: Backed by Entrepreneur First.
- Company website: https://sentientmachines.tech
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2025-12-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/sentient-machines/am9icG9zdDonOTfTokwonf6-dkoC-xhu
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sentient-machines-member-of-technical-staff-robotics-reinforcement-learning/

## About the role

We are looking for an engineer who will own the full locomotion and whole-body control stack for our humanoid robot. Your work will directly shape the robot’s ability to walk, balance, and move safely and smoothly in the real world. This is a highly hands-on role. You will spend your time building training pipelines in simulation, iterating on RL and IL policies, transferring them to hardware, and debugging behavior on real robots.

## What they're looking for

- Reinforcement Learning
- Isaac Lab , Isaac Gym, MuJoCo, or similar physics simulators
- Building training pipelines with PyTorch
- Deploying policies on embedded or GPU-accelerated systems (C++/Python/JAX/etc)
- Whole-body control, locomotion control, or quadruped/humanoid robotics
- Working with real robots — debugging hardware, evaluating behavior, collecting rollouts