Autonomy Software Intern — World Modeling (Houston Onsite)

persona.ai; Houston (TX); Vor Ort; USD 28.000 - 47.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Persona AI in Houston is seeking an Autonomy Software Engineering Intern to help build the world modeling layer of our autonomy stack. You will work hands‑on with NVIDIA Cosmos3, curating real‑world industrial video data from our customer facilities and fine‑tuning models to give our humanoid robots a grounded understanding of the environments they operate in.

This is a paid summer internship based in Houston, TX.

Qualifikationen

• Pursuing BS/MS/PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or related field; recent graduates welcome.
• Hands-on experience training, fine-tuning, or evaluating modern deep learning models in PyTorch.
• Strong Python skills; writing data processing scripts, training loops, and evaluation harnesses.
• Working familiarity with at least one vision-language model, large language model, or video understanding model.
• Practical experience building data pipelines: ingestion, filtering, labeling workflows, deduplication, train/val/test splits.
• Comfortable working in Linux environments with Git, containers (Docker), and cloud GPU infrastructure.
• Self-directed and able to make steady progress on an open-ended research problem with weekly check-ins.

Aufgaben

• Design and implement autonomy and behavior coordination algorithms for an industrial humanoid platform.
• Work with manipulation, locomotion, and perception engineers to integrate robot skills into autonomous robot behaviors.
• Implement data curation pipelines that enable our robots to understand a variety of real-world industrial tasks.
• Develop synthetic data generation pipelines for post-training of humanoid world models.
• Design and implement pipelines for autonomous behavior evaluation, benchmarking, and regression testing.
• Turn raw industrial video footage into structured, high-quality training data.
• Design and evaluate reasoning benchmarks that measure how well a fine-tuned world model grounds language queries in real shipyard and fabrication-plant scenes.

Kenntnisse

Python

PyTorch

Linux

Git

Docker

Data pipelines

Vision-Language model

ROS 2

LLM

Cloud GPUs

Python scripting

Ausbildung

BS/MS/PhD in Robotics

Robotics/CS/ML degree

Tools

NVIDIA Cosmos

NVIDIA Isaac Sim

Omniverse

OpenUSD

Hugging Face

Jobbeschreibung

Persona AI in Houston is seeking an Autonomy Software Engineering Intern to help build the world modeling layer of our autonomy stack. You will work hands‑on with NVIDIA Cosmos3, curating real‑world industrial video data from our customer facilities and fine‑tuning models to give our humanoid robots a grounded understanding of the environments they operate in.

This is a paid summer internship based in Houston, TX.