Research Engineer in Reinforcement Learning

InstaDeep, founded in 2014, is a pioneering AI company at the forefront of innovation. With strategic offices in major cities worldwide, including London, Paris, Berlin, Tunis, Kigali, Cape Town, Boston, and San Francisco, InstaDeep collaborates with giants like Google DeepMind and prestigious educational institutions like MIT, Stanford, Oxford, UCL, and Imperial College London. We are a Google Cloud Partner and a select NVIDIA Elite Service Delivery Partner. We have been listed among notable players in AI, fast-growing companies, and Europe's 1000 fastest-growing companies in 2022 by Statista and the Financial Times. Our recent acquisition by BioNTech has further solidified our commitment to leading the industry.
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Role Overview:We are looking for a Research Engineer to join the Applied AI team at InstaDeep and push the boundaries of AI for Industrial Optimization. You will design, implement, develop and deploy state-of-the-art reinforcement learning algorithms and research ideas for real-world optimization challenges.Research Engineers at InstaDeep are involved at every step of the project life cycle, including providing technical expertise and establishing projects before sales, driving R&D for POCs, developing MVPs and deployable industrialized solutions.This role requires the applicant to engage in applied research and development to choose and adapt existing techniques - and sometimes also the design of new techniques - to best solve the problem at hand!
About Applied AI:The Applied AI team at InstaDeep is working on large industrial optimization problems for InstaDeep’s clients such as Deutsche Bahn, Frankfurt Airport and many others. We utilize deep reinforcement learning and high-performance computing methods to design AI optimizers for daily use in production.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, and implement scalable deep learning and reinforcement learning algorithms to best leverage modern hardware and distributed computing systems (GPUs, TPUs, etc.).
• Write production-grade code.
• Report and present your research and development work internally and externally, tailoring communication to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with AI researchers, engineers, product managers, and business development teams.
• Represent InstaDeep at technical conferences, customer meetings, and other events when needed.

Requirements:

• A university degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning or a related field.
• Proven professional experience in research or applied machine learning roles in the domain of Reinforcement Learning.
• Solid understanding of software development, data engineering, ML, and RL principles.
• Proficiency in Python and modern ML libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX).
• Solid understanding of and experience with version control workflows (GitHub, GitLab) and clean coding practices.
• A right to work full-time in the United Kingdom.
• Working from our Paddington office at least 3 days per week.

Nice to have

• Prior experience with applying Reinforcement Learning algorithms to combinatorial optimization problems.
• Hands-on experience in high-performance computing environments (e.g., Kubernetes, Ray, Dask).
• Expertise in related fields such as Computer Vision, Representation Learning, or Simulation Environments.

Our commitment to our peopleWe empower individuals to celebrate their uniqueness here at InstaDeep. Our team comes from all walks of life, and we’re proud to continue encouraging and supporting applicants from underrepresented groups across the globe. Our commitment to creating an authentic environment comes from our ability to learn and grow from our diversity, and how better to experience this than by joining our team? We operate on a hybrid work model with guidance to work at the office 3 days per week to encourage close collaboration and innovation. We are continuing to review the situation with the well-being of InstaDeepers at the forefront of our minds.
Right to work: Please note that you will require the legal right to work without visa sponsorship in the location you are applying for. We do not sponsor work visas.