What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior RL Research Scientist position at Acceler8 Talent?
💡 What if your next role let you design reinforcement learning systems that directly control real-world science—training agents that run experiments, tune physical tools, and accelerate discovery from months to days?
🚀 Our client — a hyper–talent-dense physical-AI startup backed by top-tier builders across frontier AI and deep tech — is hiring a Senior RL Research Scientist (San Francisco / Redwood City, In-Person).
They’re building Physical Superintelligence: AI that can ask any scientific question about the physical world and get a real answer in days, not years—by pairing large models with massive automated “experiment factories.”
The role:
🎯 Own RL for real-world tool control and long-horizon workflows across biology, chemistry, materials, and robotics
🧪 Build RL environments grounded in physics, simulation, and digital twins—not toy benchmarks
🛡️ Design safe / constrained RL verifier-integrated rewards to keep agents reliable in high-stakes domains
📈 Drive offline → online transitions and evaluation pipelines as agents learn from and act on real telemetry
🤝 Partner across LLM, agent systems, simulation, and physical-tooling teams to deploy policies into production workflows
⚙️ High-ownership algorithm systems work where you shape the foundations of physical-AI autonomy
Why join?
🌍 Work at the frontier of real-world impact—from multi-cancer early detection to general scientific discovery
🏭 Operate on a uniquely scaled platform: 20k sq ft automated facilities producing real experimental feedback loops
💰 Competitive salary meaningful equity
🚀 Tiny, world-class team with a “best-person-you’ve-worked-with” talent bar
🏢 In-person, high-velocity environment with deep collaboration across SF Redwood City
📩 Interested? Apply now