Remote Senior RL Research Scientist - Frontier AI

Placements24; Randburg; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Research incentives

Computational resources

Collaborative environment

Professional growth

Job summary

Placements24 is recruiting a Senior AI Research Scientist specializing in Reinforcement Learning for a fully remote role. You will push RL research, design novel algorithms, and apply them to real-world problems in robotics, autonomous systems, and game AI.

You'll collaborate with a world-class team, publish in top conferences, mentor junior researchers, and advance theory and practice in RL, deep learning, and simulation environments from a remote-first setup.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. or Master’s degree in CS/AI with RL focus.
• Significant RL research experience with publications or substantial contributions.
• Expertise in Python and DL frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or JAX.
• Strong RL theory: value-based, policy-based, and model-based RL.
• Experience with simulation environments and RL libraries (OpenAI Gym, Ray RLlib).
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills; able to work remotely.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cutting-edge RL research and explore new algorithms.
• Design, implement, and evaluate RL agents for complex tasks.
• Develop methods for multi-agent RL, transfer learning, and safe RL.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to apply RL solutions.
• Publish findings in top AI conferences and journals.
• Mentor junior researchers and share knowledge.
• Analyze results and interpret model behavior.
• Stay updated on RL and related fields.
• Contribute to simulation environments and benchmarks.

Skills

Reinforcement Learning

Python

Deep Learning

TensorFlow

PyTorch

JAX

OpenAI Gym

Ray RLlib

Mathematical foundations

Research supervision

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree considered

Tools

Ray RLlib

CUDA

Git

Job description

Placements24 is recruiting a Senior AI Research Scientist specializing in Reinforcement Learning for a fully remote role. You will push RL research, design novel algorithms, and apply them to real-world problems in robotics, autonomous systems, and game AI.

You'll collaborate with a world-class team, publish in top conferences, mentor junior researchers, and advance theory and practice in RL, deep learning, and simulation environments from a remote-first setup.