Robot Learning Engineer Intern
On-siteSouth San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Train policies using imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or fine-tuned foundation models for real robot tasks. Build data collection and evaluation pipelines, run ablations, and deploy policies on hardware to iterate against real-world performance. Test your work on real robots at the office while gaining hands-on experience with pose estimation, VLM, VLA, 3D scene reconstruction, and multimodal learning. Own a defined deliverable end-to-end with a dedicated mentor, with opportunities to publish and present at Tier-1 conferences. This three- or six-month internship is based in the SF Bay Area for candidates pursuing an MS or PhD in ML, Robotics, or CS.
Required Qualifications
- Pursuing MS/PhD in ML, Robotics, CS, or related field (exceptional undergraduates welcome)
- Strong PyTorch
- solid grounding in deep learning
- one of IL/RL
- Applied evidence: publications, open-source, or substantial course/competition projects
- Should be comfortable taking ownership of tasks with light supervision
- Must have excellent problem-solving skills
- Legally authorized to do an internship in the United States for either 3 months or 6 months
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with simulators (Isaac, MuJoCo), VLA/foundation models, tele-op data collection, or real-hardware deployment
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