Robotics Engineer Intern: Vision, Simulation & AI

Ricoh Americas Corporation; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Tuition assistance

Paid vacation

Job summary

Ricoh USA is seeking a motivated Robotics Engineer Intern for summer 2027 to gain hands-on experience with advanced robotic systems, simulation-driven training in NVIDIA Isaac Sim, and industrial automation projects.

You will collaborate on cobot design, sensor fusion, computer vision, and deep learning model development, with opportunities to work across robotics, vision, and simulation in a fast-paced team environment.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master’s program in Robotics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• Strong interest in robotics, automation, and applied AI.
• Proficiency in Python and C/C++, with experience in robotics and vision libraries (e.g., ROS2, OpenCV, PCL).
• Coursework, research, or project experience with deep learning for computer vision, including hands-on use of a framework such as PyTorch to train and evaluate models.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design, development, and testing of robotic systems and components, with an emphasis on collaborative robot (cobot) platforms.
• Contribute to the development of control architectures using ROS2, enabling higher-level autonomy and digital twin integration.
• Develop and integrate sensor fusion techniques across multiple sensing modalities (e.g., cameras, depth sensors, LiDAR) for perception and safety.
• Support algorithm development for computer vision, object detection, and pose estimation.
• Assist in training, fine-tuning, and evaluating deep learning models for object detection and pose estimation using frameworks such as PyTorch, extending existing computer vision algorithm development work.
• Collect and curate large-scale synthetic training data in NVIDIA Isaac Sim, leveraging domain randomization and automatic ground-truth labeling for bounding boxes, segmentation masks, depth, and object poses.
• Support robot training in NVIDIA Isaac Sim / Isaac Lab, including reinforcement learning and imitation learning experiments for grasping, manipulation, and cobot motion tasks.
• Contribute to sim-to-real transfer by validating simulation-trained perception models and policies on physical cobot hardware, and iterating on scene fidelity and randomization ranges to close the sim-real gap.
• Contribute to system development on x86 platforms with NVIDIA GPU acceleration, while also evaluating embedded options (e.g., Jetson Orin) for potential cost, packaging, and performance benefits.
• Support initiatives using NVIDIA Omniverse for visualization, simulation, and digital twin environments.
• Support hardware and software integration across robotics, vision, production printers, and workflow systems to deliver cohesive automation solutions.
• Document project progress and contribute to proof-of-concept demonstrations integrating robotics, vision, and simulation.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Problem solving

Independent work

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Robotics/related field

Tools

ROS2

OpenCV

PCL

PyTorch

NVIDIA Isaac Sim

Job description

Ricoh USA is seeking a motivated Robotics Engineer Intern for summer 2027 to gain hands-on experience with advanced robotic systems, simulation-driven training in NVIDIA Isaac Sim, and industrial automation projects.

You will collaborate on cobot design, sensor fusion, computer vision, and deep learning model development, with opportunities to work across robotics, vision, and simulation in a fast-paced team environment.