Employers hiring for Reinforcement Learning on this page include Anthropic, Braze, and Pinterest. 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 87 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.

Senior Research Scientist

1mo

MongoDB

HybridSydney, Australia

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer, Infrastructure, RL Systems

2mo

Thinking Machines Lab

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Research Engineer, Tinker, Developer Experience

2mo

Thinking Machines Lab

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior AI Engineering Manager

1mo

Duolingo

HybridNew York, USA

68 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Product Manager, Relevance and Personalization

2mo

Airbnb

HybridSan Francisco, USA

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Postdoctoral Research Associate - AI-Accelerated Discovery of Permanent Magnets

1mo

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

HybridOak Ridge, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Content Shopping

17d

HybridToronto, Canada

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Research Engineer, Learnable Planner (Integration)

17d

Waabi

Hybrid

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$159k - $296k

Senior Lead AI Solutions Consultant

1mo

Braze

HybridSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Lead AI Solutions Consultant

1mo

Braze

HybridChicago, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Lead AI Solutions Consultant

1mo

Braze

HybridAustin, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Research Engineer, Visual Knowledge Work

13d

Anthropic

HybridNew York City +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer, RL Scaling Science

18d

Anthropic

HybridLondon, UK

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer, Domain Scaling

20d

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$1 - $2

PhD Fall Machine Learning Intern (ATG — Visual, Multimodal, and Recommender Systems)

2mo

HybridSan Francisco +3 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$12,100/mo

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization Engineering

2mo

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$190k - $332k

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Core Engineering

2mo

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$190k - $332k

Senior Data Scientist (AI Deployment)

1mo

Braze

HybridSão Paulo, Brazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Principal, Strategic AI Sales

1mo

Braze

HybridSydney, Australia

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Principal, Strategic AI Sales

1mo

Braze

HybridSingapore, Singapore

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Research Engineer, Code RL

26d

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco or New York City

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco, USA

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Lead, Training Insights

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco or New York City

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization Engineering

2mo

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$163k - $286k

Forward-Deployed Data Scientist

1mo

Braze

HybridToronto, Canada

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Data Scientist II (AI Deployment)

1mo

Braze

HybridSão Paulo, Brazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Research Engineer, Universes

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment

1mo

Anthropic

HybridLondon or San Francisco

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco, USA

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Tokens

1mo

Anthropic

HybridNew York City +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$350k - $500k

Research Engineer, Performance RL

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco, USA

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning)

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco or New York City

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning)

1mo

Anthropic

HybridLondon, UK

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer, Knowledge Team

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer, Knowledge Foundations

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco, USA

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco or New York City

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$300k - $405k

Model Performance Software Engineer, Claude Code

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco or New York City

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

ML/Research Engineer, Safeguards

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco or New York City

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$350k - $500k

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