reinforcement-learning jobs in San Diego

Principal Machine Learning Engineer at AppFolio to architect and lead mission-critical AI systems across the Realm-X property management platform. You'll design advanced AI agentic systems combining reasoning, planning, and execution; establish ML platform primitives for end-to-end production workflows; and drive the transition toward autonomous property management using LLMs, fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning.…See more Requires 10+ years building software systems with deep expertise in traditional ML, deep learning, generative AI, LLM post-training (SFT, RLHF, DPO, RL), and production ML at scale—plus a Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field.

Conduct cutting-edge research in efficient generative AI, including LLMs, multi-modal foundation models, LLM reasoning, reinforcement learning, and agentic AI. Lead high-impact research initiatives and develop production-ready solutions with real-world commercial impact, with a focus on on-device deployment challenges.…See more Implement and evaluate solutions in both simulation and on-device environments, and publish findings in top-tier AI/ML conferences. Requires a Master's degree and 2+ years of experience (or PhD), with proven research excellence, deep expertise in generative AI and reinforcement learning, and hands-on experience with model development pipelines including training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and optimization.

As a Datacenter AI Systems and Solutions Engineer at Qualcomm, you will research, develop, and optimize end-to-end AI/ML solutions that integrate Qualcomm's AI inference accelerators with system software and ecosystem components. You will lead the design and deployment of production-ready Generative AI and LLM applications, perform model benchmarking and performance analysis, and serve as a technical lead for customer engagements on AI model optimization and inference tuning.…See more The role requires deep expertise in AI systems architecture, MLOps practices, and large-scale distributed systems, with hands-on proficiency in Python, ML frameworks, containerization, and orchestration platforms. You will drive system-level requirements, hardware/software co-design, and influence product direction through performance analysis and optimization strategies.

As a Senior Systems Engineer for Data Center AI at Qualcomm, you will research, develop, optimize, and validate AI/ML solutions that integrate Qualcomm's hardware accelerators with software and ecosystem to deliver high-performance inference in datacenter environments. You will design and deploy Gen AI and LLM applications, implement fine-tuning and distillation techniques, perform model benchmarking, and drive system-level architecture decisions.…See more You will collaborate across functional teams to meet system-level requirements while staying current with advances in AI/ML models and hardware. Required skills include strong Python proficiency, expertise in ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), deep understanding of ML deployment and system performance profiling, and experience with parallel computing.

Build and operate the data and ML infrastructure powering an AI platform for materials science, owning both sides: data pipelines that ingest and curate large-scale scientific output into training-ready formats, and model packaging, serving, monitoring, and CI/CD systems that move models safely from research to production across customer environments. You will design data ingestion and transformation workflows, implement validation and quality gates, package and version models with reproducible builds, run models through batch and online inference with safe rollout and rollback, monitor for drift and degradation, and build observability and internal tooling for engineering and science teams.…See more The role requires 6+ years shipping production software with deep expertise in data systems, ML infrastructure, containers, orchestration, and observability.

This intermediate-level role develops AI-enhanced decision systems for government sponsors, applying machine learning, large language models, and decision science to mission-critical problems. You will design, prototype, and evaluate AI solutions in cross-functional teams, lead R&D initiatives, and work hands-on with modern AI techniques including deep learning, reinforcement learning, generative AI, and multi-agent systems.…See more The role requires 2+ years of hands-on ML experience (or 1 year with a Master's degree) and proficiency in Python and/or C++, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.