Autonomous Systems AI Research Intern

Atoms; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

Atoms is building real-world robots for industrial automation. We seek an AI Research Intern to join our founding team, bridging high-level AI research and physical actuation for autonomous transport platforms.

You will contribute to perception, world models, and action models, translating theory into scalable deployment on real systems and driving how our platforms perceive and navigate complex environments.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in Bachelor's or Master's in CS, EECS, Robotics, AI or related field.
• Experience or projects in VLA/embodied AI; RL/trajectory optimization; or multimodal transformers.
• Proficiency with PyTorch or JAX for large-model training.
• Python programming; working knowledge of C++.

Responsibilities

• Integrate emerging AI research into internal model pipelines for real-world data and simulation.
• Prototype and evaluate RL, trajectory planning, and distillation algorithms from literature.
• Train multimodal models mapping sensor inputs to vehicle actuation.
• Experiment with world model architectures to improve simulation fidelity.
• Analyze edge cases in driving scenarios to improve stability and performance.
• Run simulation experiments with researchers to identify bottlenecks and improvements.

Skills

VL A models

Embodied AI

RL / trajectory optimization

Multimodal Transformers

PyTorch / JAX

Python

C++

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/EECS/Robotics/AI

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

Atoms is building real-world robots for industrial automation. We seek an AI Research Intern to join our founding team, bridging high-level AI research and physical actuation for autonomous transport platforms.

You will contribute to perception, world models, and action models, translating theory into scalable deployment on real systems and driving how our platforms perceive and navigate complex environments.