Senior RL Research Scientist — Engineering Design (SF)

Spectral Labs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental

401(k) match

Meals & commuting

Job summary

Spectral Labs is seeking a research scientist to lead reinforcement learning work for engineering design. You will build environments over CAD geometry, design rewards grounded in geometric validity, and supervise simulation and post-training at scale.

The role requires 7–10 years of research experience in RL, ML, or robotics, with strong fundamentals and the ability to write training code yourself. This is a fully in-person position in our SF office, offering total compensation and equity in

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of RL/ML/robotics research experience.
• Strong fundamentals and ability to write training code.

Responsibilities

• Lead reinforcement learning research for engineering design.
• Build environments over CAD geometry and design rewards grounded in geometric validity.
• Scale post-training of models and simulations across compute resources.

Skills

RL research experience

Machine learning

Robotics

Training code implementation

Job description

Spectral Labs is seeking a research scientist to lead reinforcement learning work for engineering design. You will build environments over CAD geometry, design rewards grounded in geometric validity, and supervise simulation and post-training at scale.

The role requires 7–10 years of research experience in RL, ML, or robotics, with strong fundamentals and the ability to write training code yourself. This is a fully in-person position in our SF office, offering total compensation and equity in