RL Environment Data Engineer / Researcher

Eigent AI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Eigent AI is seeking an RL Environment Data Engineer / Researcher to design and refine reinforcement learning training environments. This role emphasizes data collection, task definition, and the implementation of anti-reward-hacking mechanisms.

The ideal candidate will have strong Python coding skills and a solid understanding of reinforcement learning. Responsibilities include collaborating with multiple teams to improve RL tasks and validation environments.

Qualifications

• Strong coding skills in Python to build data pipelines and evaluation tools.
• Understanding reinforcement learning and environment design.
• Experience in data quality assessment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve RL training environments.
• Collect, clean, structure, and evaluate data for RL models.
• Define task objectives and reward functions.

Skills

Python programming

Reinforcement Learning

Data evaluation

Data scraping

Job description

We are looking for an RL Environment Data Engineer / Researcher to design, build, and refine reinforcement learning training environments across different domains. This role will focus on data collection, task definition, reward design, evaluation criteria, anti-reward-hacking mechanisms, and post-training validation of environment data effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• - Design and improve RL training environments across various task domains.
• - Collect, clean, structure, and evaluate data used for RL environment construction and model post-training.
• - Define task objectives, reward functions, and evaluation standards to ensure reliable and reproducible training signals.
• - Develop technical approaches to prevent reward hacking and identify loopholes in reward design.
• - Build validation environments to assess the effectiveness of post-training data and RL environment design.
• - Collaborate with research, engineering, and data teams to improve environment coverage, task difficulty, and evaluation reliability.
• - Follow research progress in RL environments, data evaluation, AI agents, and post-training methods, and apply relevant findings to production workflows.

Requirements

• - Strong coding skills, especially in Python, with the ability to independently build data pipelines, environments, and evaluation tools.
• - Proficiency with AI coding tools for code generation, debugging, refactoring, and rapid experimentation.
• - Solid understanding of reinforcement learning, post-training, reward function design, environment design, and data evaluation.
• - Ability to translate real-world tasks into trainable and measurable RL environments.
• Experience with data scraping, data cleaning, annotation, or data quality assessment is preferred.
• - Experience with LLM agents, RLHF/RLAIF, coding agents, automated evaluation, or benchmark construction is a strong plus.
• - Strong experimental mindset and engineering execution, with the ability to continuously improve systems based on data and evaluation results.