PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Reinforcement Learning in United States

This opening is part of the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program and sits within the Science of Intelligence Systems (SIS) area. The project focuses on computational methods for robots operating in dynamic, unstructured environments, with an emphasis on enabling machines to perceive and understand their surroundings, move and orient themselves, and collaborate in complex missions with limited human intervention. The research is explicitly aimed at Army-relevant robotics...

The Lehigh University Plasma Control Laboratory is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to advance control systems, artificial intelligence, and scientific machine learning for fusion energy . The role sits within the Lehigh University Plasma Control Group (LU-PCG) , directed by Professors Eugenio Schuster and Tariq Rafiq , and centers on research for magnetically confined fusion plasmas in tokamaks. The postdoc will contribute to a program that combines theory-based modeling, predictive simulation...

The Computational Medicine Research Group at the University of California, Irvine, led by Prof. Pratik Shah , is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to work at the intersection of generative AI, medical imaging, and clinical decision support. The project focuses on building and interpreting deep learning systems for digital biopsies from high-parameter pathology and other medical images, together with methods that connect molecular profiles to disease biology and support diagnostic tool developmen...

This postdoctoral fellowship at DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory focuses on machine learning for state estimation and decision propagation in highly heterogeneous environments where humans are coupled to machine decision agents. The project is framed around a Network of Networks research program and aims to develop novel theories, validation experiments, and hardware implementations for human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning , transfer learning , and the transfer of learned behavior across hete...

The National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher in Mathematical Optimization for Energy Systems in Golden, Colorado. The position is based in the Advanced Computing Solutions Group within the NLR Computational Science Center. The researcher will develop and apply mathematical optimization methods to the design and control of energy systems. Research may combine linear, nonlinear, integer, and stochastic optimization with artificial intelligence techniq...

Google Research is seeking a PhD research intern for 2027 to work with Yongshuo Zong in Mountain View, United States. The opportunity is with the MedGemma team, which develops open-weight multimodal foundation models for healthcare. Research topics include multimodal reinforcement learning, AI agents, and related research directions for healthcare. The intern will work directly with Yongshuo Zong and contribute to a focused research team within Google Research. Applicants should review the linke...

The University of Iowa is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Research Scholar for a dual appointment with the CADRE Health Services Research & Development Center of Innovation at the Iowa City VA Health Care System and the award-winning Business Analytics Department in the Tippie College of Business. The postdoctoral researcher will work primarily with Diana Jalal and Nick Street, with additional collaboration from Michihiko Goto and Benjamin Griffin. The research combines machine learning, dat...

Todd Levin, Group Lead of the Energy Economics and Policy Analysis Group at Argonne National Laboratory, is recruiting current Ph.D. students for Graduate Research Aide roles and applicants for a full-time postdoctoral position in power markets and modeling. The work focuses on electricity markets, power system modeling, optimization tools, foundation models, large-scale data management and analysis, and applications of Argonne’s Large-scale Electricity Analysis Framework to power systems and wh...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Adaptive Learning Agents and Computational Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona Department of Psychology, in the NAIADEL Lab . This postdoc focuses on adaptive learning agents , computational cognitive science , reinforcement learning , meta-learning , world models , and transformer-based sequence models for understanding human intelligence and agency. The lab studies how people and artificial agents infer environmental structure, judge controllabilit...