AI & RL Engineer for Defense Simulations (Python)

Freedom Real Estate; Alabama; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP participation

401(k) match

Medical, dental, vision

Job summary

Torch Technologies is seeking an Artificial Intelligence / Reinforcement Learning Engineer to advance RL methods for defense modeling, simulation, and decision-support. You will work in Huntsville on-site, developing, training, and evaluating RL agents using Python and Ray RLlib, with MATLAB for analysis and modeling.

The role emphasizes hands-on research and software engineering, including reproducible experiments, code reviews, and collaboration with simulation engineers and subject matter

Qualifications

• US Citizenship required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering, machine learning, reinforcement learning, or numerical algorithm development.
• Strong Python programming skills with scientific computing and AI/ML software.
• Experience developing or evaluating reinforcement learning algorithms using Ray RLlib.
• Experience using MATLAB for algorithm development, data analysis, simulation, or mathematical modeling.
• Understanding of RL concepts: policies, rewards, observations, actions, agent-environment interactions.
• Experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.

Responsibilities

• Research, develop, and evaluate RL algorithms for complex decision-making and optimization problems.
• Implement and train RL agents using Python and Ray RLlib; design observation/action spaces and reward functions.
• Develop and integrate RL environments using Gymnasium or similar frameworks with simulation tools.
• Document experiments, results, and technical findings; support transition of research to prototypes.

Skills

Python

Ray RLlib

MATLAB

Reinforcement Learning

PyTorch

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/Math

Tools

MATLAB

Gymnasium

C++

Git

Linux

Job description

Torch Technologies is seeking an Artificial Intelligence / Reinforcement Learning Engineer to advance RL methods for defense modeling, simulation, and decision-support. You will work in Huntsville on-site, developing, training, and evaluating RL agents using Python and Ray RLlib, with MATLAB for analysis and modeling.

The role emphasizes hands-on research and software engineering, including reproducible experiments, code reviews, and collaboration with simulation engineers and subject matter