Robotics Perception Engineer Intern
On-siteSouth San Francisco, California, United States
South San Francisco, California, United StatesOn-siteFull TimeEntry LevelDoctorate Or Professional DegreeStartup
Full TimeEntry LevelDoctorate Or Professional DegreeStartup
Job Summary
Develop and evaluate perception components on real robot data, building datasets and evaluation harnesses to run experiments and report results. Integrate your module into the live robot stack and demo it, gaining hands-on experience with pose estimation, VLMs, VLAs, 3D scene reconstruction, and multimodal learning. Test your work on real robots at the office, with an opportunity to publish and attend Tier-1 industry conferences for PhD interns. This scoped project involves owning a defined deliverable end-to-end under a dedicated mentor, with potential return or full-time offers.
Required Qualifications
- Pursuing MS/PhD in CS, EE, Robotics, or related field
- Strong Python skills
- Experience with PyTorch
- Experience with computer vision fundamentals
- Evidence of applied work: projects, competitions, publications, or industry robotics experience
- Comfortable taking ownership of tasks with light supervision
- 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 sensor drivers
- Experience with CUDA
- Experience with 3D geometry
- Experience with multi-sensor fusion
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