Reinforced Learning Engineer - Crypto

Company: Career Renew
Location: New York City
Posted on: February 18, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Job Description Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Reinforced Learning Engineer - Crypto - this is a fully onsite role in NYC. Salary range: 600-800K USD yearly plus benefits. Job description: Own and ship an RL-driven trading agent using real capital to increase trading volume and user participation in a memecoin ecosystem. Design reward functions and policies aligned with product goals while enforcing strict downside risk constraints. Build evaluation and validation frameworks (simulation, offline analysis) to minimize reliance on live sequential testing. Safely transition an existing heuristic-based production system toward learning-based approaches. Take end-to-end ownership and technical leadership as the sole RL expert, from data and modeling through deployment, monitoring, and safeguards. Requirements: Has already put an autonomous learning system into production that directly controlled capital, pricing, traffic, or resources and can explain what broke and how they fixed it. Has personally designed and enforced hard risk limits (capital caps, loss bounds, circuit breakers) in a live system, not just talked about “risk-aware objectives.” Has built a policy evaluation loop from scratch (simulators, replay, counterfactuals, shadow deployments) before trusting live rollout. Can make and defend uncomfortable tradeoffs (e.g. heuristic > RL, bandit > deep RL) based on empirical results instead of ideology Has operated as the single owner of a complex ML system in a small team, with no safety net of research orgs, infra teams, or “ML platforms.” Compensation & Package Base Salary Equity/Tokens

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