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Reinforcement Learning Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 83+ reinforcement learning jobs at companies offering generous PTO and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 8 new this week. Hiring companies include Anthropic, Pinterest, and Braze.

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Research Scientist 5/6 – AI for Member Systems

NEW

Netflix · Remote · USA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO$466k – $750k

Senior AI Research Scientist (Model-based RL)

1mo

Phaidra · Remote · UK

65 · GoodFlexible Hours£85k – £132k

Staff Product Manager

2mo

Phaidra · Remote · USA or Canada

65 · GoodFlexible Hours

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Assistance Engineering

3mo

Airbnb · Remote · USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours$196k – $227k

Principal Machine Learning Engineer- LLM Fine-tuning and Optimization

4mo

Airbnb · Remote · USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours$292k – $365k

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Post Training

4mo

Airbnb · Remote · USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours$248k – $310k

Applied Research Intern, Proactive Intelligence & Customer World Models (PhD / Graduate Co-op)

3mo

Block · Remote · Toronto, ON, Canada

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Applied Research Intern, Proactive Intelligence & Customer World Models (PhD / Graduate Co-op)

3mo

Block · Remote · California, USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Core Engineering

3mo

Pinterest · Remote · Toronto, ON, Canada

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Core Engineering

5mo

Pinterest · Remote · San Francisco, CA, USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$190k – $332k

Machine Learning Engineer II, Core Engineering

5mo

Pinterest · Remote · Toronto, ON, Canada

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$171k – $221k

Research Scientist, Simulation Agents

3mo

Waabi · Remote · USA or Canada

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO$158k – $269k

Senior/Staff Research Engineer, Learnable Planner

3mo

Waabi · Remote · USA or Canada

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO$159k – $296k

Anthropic Fellows Program, ML Systems & Reinforcement Learning

4mo

Anthropic · Remote · USA

55 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave$3,850/wk

Machine Learning Engineer, Core Engineering

5mo

Pinterest · Remote · USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$139k – $286k

AI Scientist - Digital Transformation

NEW

Washington University in St. Louis · Onsite · St. Louis, MO, USA

67 · GoodCompressed Work Week$75k – $129k

Senior C++ Programmer - Machine Learning

Ubisoft Montreal · Onsite · Montreal, QC, Canada

65 · GoodGenerous PTO

Research Scientist - Personalization

Spotify · Hybrid · London, UK

64 · GoodGenerous PTO

Research Scientist - Personalization

Spotify · Hybrid · New York City, NY, USA

64 · GoodGenerous PTO

Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

2mo

University of Manchester · Hybrid · Manchester, UK

70 · GreatCompressed Work Week

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Employers hiring for Reinforcement Learning on this page include Anthropic, Pinterest, and Braze. Reinforcement Learning roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Reinforcement Learning is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Reinforcement Learning roles span the full seniority range — we list 81 open roles requiring Reinforcement Learning across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Reinforcement Learning hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Reinforcement Learning roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Reinforcement Learning candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Reinforcement Learning on current listings.

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