(02 / 10 / 2025) RL Research Engineer

Job Title : RL Research Engineer (Planning & Control)

Location : Vapi, Gujarat

Employment Type : Full-Time

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Reinforcement Learning (RL) Research Engineer specializing in planning and control. The role focuses on designing learning-based planners and policies (RL, imitation learning, model-based) and integrating them with classical control approaches to enable safe, efficient, and robust autonomous operation across multiple domains including humanoids, AGVs, cars, and drones.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and train policies from human demonstrations and teleoperation data.
• Implement safe reinforcement learning approaches with constraints.
• Design long-horizon planners using world models and uncertainty-aware control.
• Implement safety shields, fallback controllers, and verify-before-deploy pipelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate RL policies with control systems.
• Conduct sim-to-real transfer and ensure policies generalize in real-world settings.
• Design reward functions and implement offline RL and behavioral cloning strategies.

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Domain Notes

Humanoids :

AGVs (Autonomous Ground Vehicles) :

Cars :

Drones :

Application Instructions

Interested candidates may apply by sending their resume and cover letter to parijat.patel@merai.co with the subject line : “RL Research Engineer (Planning & Control) Application”.