Research Engineer, RL Environments

Mecka; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Mecka AI is seeking a Research Engineer, RL Env to build reinforcement learning environments that enable researchers to train models and assess capabilities. You will translate real tasks into computable problems, implement environments for model training and verify that progress reflects useful behavior.

In this hands-on role, you will write working software, investigate failures, and develop methods with product colleagues and engineers, contributing to reusable environments and evaluation

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience formulating RL problems and building environments.
• Strong debugging and software engineering skills.
• Ability to design controlled experiments and analyze results.

Responsibilities

• Build RL environments with defined tasks, observations, actions.
• Develop rewards and scoring mechanisms.
• Run learning experiments and compare policies.
• Ensure evaluation reliability and report uncertainties.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to transfer prototypes.

Skills

RL environment design

Python

Reinforcement learning

Software debugging

Experiment design

Education

PhD or MSc in CS/ML

Tools

OpenAI Gym

PyTorch

NumPy

Job description

Mecka AI is seeking a Research Engineer, RL Env to build reinforcement learning environments that enable researchers to train models and assess capabilities. You will translate real tasks into computable problems, implement environments for model training and verify that progress reflects useful behavior.

In this hands-on role, you will write working software, investigate failures, and develop methods with product colleagues and engineers, contributing to reusable environments and evaluation