AI Research Intern: Foundation Models

The Robot Age; Carson, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Part time

Job summary

GrayMatter Robotics in Carson, California is looking for an AI research intern to work on foundation-model projects for industrial robots used in manufacturing. The internship focuses on applied research tied to deployed customer sites and real parts reliability.

You will collaborate with robotics software, applications, hardware, and deployment teams to move experiments from data and simulation toward production robots and to evaluate model performance under factory variation.

Qualifications

• AI, robotics, machine learning, or related research training.
• Interest in foundation models for physical systems.
• Ability to work through ambiguous applied research problems.
• Comfort collaborating across robotics and manufacturing teams.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to foundation-model research for industrial robot behavior
• Work with robotics software, applications, hardware, and deployment teams
• Help move AI experiments from data and simulation toward production robots
• Evaluate model performance on real manufacturing variation

Skills

AI research

Robotics

Machine learning

Applied research

Education

Pursuing Bachelor's degree

Job description

What the role actually is

GrayMatter Robotics is hiring an AI research intern for foundation-model work in Carson, California. The role sits with a special projects AI team building capabilities for robots used in real manufacturing processes.

The posting is unusually applied for an internship: the research is framed around deployed robotic finishing systems, customer sites, and reliability on real parts.

What you would work on

• Contribute to foundation-model research for industrial robot behavior
• Work with robotics software, applications, hardware, and deployment teams
• Help move AI experiments from data and simulation toward production robots
• Evaluate model performance on real manufacturing variation

What they are asking for

• AI, robotics, machine learning, or related research training
• Interest in foundation models for physical systems
• Ability to work through ambiguous applied research problems
• Comfort collaborating across robotics and manufacturing teams

Why this one is worth a look

Many foundation-model robotics roles are still abstract. GrayMatter's version is tied to surface finishing and factory deployments, which makes it a useful signal for where embodied AI is becoming commercially specific.