Robert Half

Machine Learning Engineer

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This role is for a Machine Learning Engineer with a contract length of "unknown", offering a pay rate of "unknown". Key skills include hands-on Reinforcement Learning experience, SageMaker familiarity, and strong communication. Industry experience in deploying RL solutions is preferred.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
480
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🗓️ - Date
January 16, 2026
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
Unknown
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
San Jose, CA
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Reinforcement Learning #Deployment #Data Science #Cloud #SageMaker #ML (Machine Learning)
Role description
Our team is hiring a hands-on Reinforcement Learning (RL) professional with proven experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing RL solutions in real-world applications. This is an opportunity to make a direct impact by improving existing RL-powered products and expanding into new domains. Key Responsibilities: • Enhance and optimize current RL-based products through hands-on experimentation and iteration. • Lead or support exploratory projects to expand RL use into additional verticals. • Build, train, and deploy RL models on platforms such as SageMaker or comparable production environments. • Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to align RL solutions with business goals. • Document decision-making, model choices, and reward shaping strategies for transparency and knowledge sharing. Minimum Qualifications: • Demonstrable, hands-on experience applying RL to solve real problems. • Practical familiarity with SageMaker or similar ML training/deployment environments. • Ability to clearly explain RL fundamentals: agents, environments, policies, rewards, and episodes. • Solid grasp of commonly used RL algorithms (e.g., DQN, PPO, A3C, etc.), including their strengths, weaknesses, and practical implications. • Experience working in multidisciplinary teams and excellent communication skills. Preferred Skills: • Deployment of RL solutions at scale in cloud or hybrid environments. • Experience with simulation environments for RL (e.g., OpenAI Gym, Unity ML-Agents, custom environments). • Prior experience integrating RL models with business processes or pipelines.