Intern / Junior Reinforcement Learning Engineer

Key Skills

Python Programming, C++, C Programming, AWS, Reinforcement Learning, Calculus, Linear Algebra, CUDA kernels, AI Robotic systems, Linux Operating system, 3D CAD, Kinematics

Job Description

Are you interested in training agents that can see and act in the real world? Have you already worked on projects involving reinforcement learning or robotics? Do you like interacting with an international team while working independently?
Sony AI is looking for a talented Intern/ Junior Reinforcement Learning engineer to join our Zurich-based team for a 6-month internship (early start dates preferred).
Sony AI is dedicated to using AI to help unleash human imagination and creativity. We believe in researching and developing AI techniques that empower the imagination and creativity of artists, makers and creators around the world. Our aim is to advance AI so that it augments – and works in harmony with – humans to benefit society.

Job Description

Reinforcement learning holds the promise of enabling robots to solve tasks that are challenging for traditional control algorithms. Despite this promise, RL agents are commonly trained in virtual environments, and considerable efforts are therefore needed to apply such agentsto the real world. The goal of this internship is to solve some of the challenges that arise when a deep RL agent is trained in simulation and then applied to a robot in the real world.

Qualifications & Experience

• Background in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or another related field
• Experience with reinforcement learning and deep learning
• Experience programming in Python with TensorFlow/PyTorch
• Good communication skills in English

Preferred Qualifications

• Publication record in machine learning
• Familiarity with continuous control, sim2real, goal-conditioned RL, imitation learning
• Experience with creating RL environments in Bullet, Unity, MuJoCo
• Experience with ROS

Working Location

Zurich