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Applied Robot Learning Engineer / RL Specialist

General Motors · Posted Nov 11, 2026

Experienced applied robotics/robot learning engineer with reinforcement learning expertise.

The salary range for this role is $153,200 to $234,100.

Develop, fine‑tune, and evaluate VLA models and learning‑based policies on physical robotic systems.
Apply reinforcement learning to improve manipulation success rates, execution efficiency, robustness, and recovery from failures.
Implement and evaluate appropriate approaches such as PPO, SAC, residual RL, policy adaptation, or learned recovery policies.
Design reward functions and success detectors, including learned or VLM‑based reward models, for real‑world manipulation tasks.
Apply sample‑efficient methods for real‑world training, such as RL from demonstrations, offline‑to‑online RL, and human‑in‑the‑loop corrections.