Robotics Engineer Intern

Description

Our San Francisco lab puts 60+ robot platforms within reach and powers one of the largest real-robot datasets anywhere. We're building the infrastructure layer for physical AI.

As a Robotics Engineer Intern, you'll develop and integrate autonomous systems across our fleet and at customer deployment sites — building the "robotic hands" that turn our platforms and datasets into production-ready systems for enterprises and researchers.

Responsibilities

• Design robotic manipulation and navigation systems for constrained, high-density, real-world environments
• Integrate vision systems for automated inspection, manipulation, and anomaly detection
• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to connect robotics control with real-time data and training pipelines
• Bring up, prototype, test, and refine robotic hardware and software across our multi-platform fleet and at pilot deployment sites
• Ensure the reliability, safety, and scalability of robotics solutions for continuous operation

Requirements

• We're looking for a true full-stack roboticist who is fluent across software, hardware, and mechanical domains:
• Software: Proficiency with robotics frameworks such as ROS/ROS2, MoveIt, and OpenCV; strong control algorithms and the ability to iterate quickly in a startup environment
• Hardware: Hands-on experience with embedded systems, sensors, actuators, wiring, and robot bring-up and integration
• Mechanical: Working understanding of robot mechanics — arm kinematics, mounting and fixturing, end-effectors, and the physical assembly/debugging of real hardware
• Demonstrated experience taking systems end-to-end, from prototype to deployed, across multiple subsystems
• Strong problem-solving skills and comfort working hands-on with real robots
• Nice-to-Have
• Experience with industrial robotics, teleoperation, or multi-robot fleets
• Computer vision model training and deployment
• Sensor fusion, path planning, and SLAM / autonomous navigation
• Experience across many robot platforms or hardware form factors
• Location: San Francisco, CA (on-site at our lab)
• Why Robotics Center?
• Your work will directly shape how enterprises and researchers access and deploy real robots — spanning the full stack from mechanical hardware to AI.
• Visa: Will sponsor