Reinforced Learning Engineer

MLabs • New York, NY

5h • $600,000 - $800,000 • Onsite

About The Position

We are a team of elite builders and high-growth software developers moving at the speed of the most active markets in the world. As core contributors to one of the largest crypto social networks globally, we are redefining the intersection of social engagement and decentralized finance.
We are seeking a battle-tested Reinforcement Learning Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of an RL-driven trading agent. This agent will deploy real capital within a high-velocity ecosystem to drive volume and participation. This is not a research role; you will be the sole RL expert responsible for transitioning our existing heuristic systems into sophisticated, learning-based models. You will be expected to move fast, enforce strict risk guardrails, and ship code that directly impacts the global crypto economy.
We are looking for an autonomous operator who has "skin in the game" experience. You should be comfortable working without a massive research organization or dedicated ML infrastructure team.

Requirements

• Production RL Experience: You have previously put an autonomous learning system into production that directly controlled capital, pricing, traffic, or resources. You can clearly articulate what failed in production and how you fixed it.
• Risk Management: You have personally designed and enforced hard risk limits (capital caps, loss bounds, circuit breakers) in live systems. You understand the difference between a "risk-aware objective" and a hard-coded safety net.
• Evaluation Frameworks: You have built policy evaluation loops from scratch—including simulators, replay buffers, counterfactuals, or shadow deployments—prior to live rollout.
• Pragmatic Decision Making: You can defend uncomfortable tradeoffs (e.g., choosing a simple heuristic over deep RL) based on empirical results rather than academic ideology.
• Technical Independence: You are comfortable being the single owner of a complex ML system within a small team, managing everything from data and modeling to deployment and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Ship RL Agents: Own the development and deployment of RL-driven trading agents using real capital to increase ecosystem volume.
• Policy Design: Design reward functions and policies that align with aggressive product goals while maintaining strict downside risk constraints.
• System Transition: Safely migrate existing heuristic-based production systems toward learning-based approaches without interrupting live operations.
• Validation & Simulation: Build robust offline evaluation and validation frameworks to minimize the need for risky, live sequential testing.
• Technical Leadership: Act as the internal authority on RL, ensuring the technical excellence, safety, and scalability of our automated trading infrastructure.

Benefits

• High-Stakes Environment: Work on one of the most successful and high-traffic platforms in the crypto space.
• True Ownership: Lead a critical technical vertical with zero red tape and immediate feedback loops from the market.
• Elite Talent: Collaborate with a lean, fast-moving team of world-class developers and builders.
• Competitive Base Salary.
• High-upside Equity/Token package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees