Hands-on Robotics Data & Evaluation Tools Intern

Realhand Inc.; Palo Alto, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

RealHand Inc. is seeking a Robot Data & Evaluation Tooling Intern in Palo Alto to own data pipelines, labeling tooling, and the evaluation harness for improving dexterous manipulation policies.

You will work on multi-modal datasets, egocentric video, and simulator-generated data, contributing to end-to-end data quality and experiment design. The role emphasizes building scalable tools, robust testing practices, and close collaboration with robotics teams to translate data insights into

Qualifications

• Strong Python and solid software engineering practice (testing, code review, reproducibility).
• Experience building data or ML pipelines at scale and evaluation frameworks for ML systems.
• Familiarity with computer vision concepts: detection, segmentation, tracking, depth, or 3D understanding using PyTorch/TensorFlow/JAX.
• Experience with egocentric video and hand-object interaction annotation challenges.
• Experience generating or working with data from physics simulators and understanding distribution differences.
• Ability to design experiments, analyze failures, and iterate in real-world robotic systems.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable pipelines for ingesting and processing multi-modal robot and human data (egocentric video, depth, joint states, tactile signals, audio) with time synchronization.
• Design annotation strategies for hand-object interaction and create labeling tooling.
• Develop model-assisted labeling loops and QA workflows to ensure output quality.
• Own dataset management including schema design, versioning, lineage, deduplication, and fast slicing by task or failure mode.
• Build an evaluation framework with standardized benchmarks in simulation and on real hardware; create regression dashboards.

Skills

Python programming

Data pipelines

ML evaluation frameworks

Computer vision

Experiment design

Egocentric data annotation

Education

MS/PhD candidate in Robotics/CS

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

Job description

RealHand Inc. is seeking a Robot Data & Evaluation Tooling Intern in Palo Alto to own data pipelines, labeling tooling, and the evaluation harness for improving dexterous manipulation policies.

You will work on multi-modal datasets, egocentric video, and simulator-generated data, contributing to end-to-end data quality and experiment design. The role emphasizes building scalable tools, robust testing practices, and close collaboration with robotics teams to translate data insights into