Robotics Intern

Intelligence Factory; New York (NY); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Equipment budget

Meals

Job summary

Intelligence Factory is seeking a hands-on robotics intern to help push our manipulation models toward reliable real-world deployment. You will work in our NYC lab, evaluating policies on live hardware and gathering failure data to improve performance.

You should bring hands-on time with real robot hardware, comfort debugging across the stack, and experience evaluating or running policies in robotics. Join us to ship work that matters.

Qualifications

• Hands-on time with real robot hardware, coursework or competition acceptable.
• Ability to debug across hardware, sensors, code and models.
• Experience evaluating or running policies in robotics or imitation learning.
• Proven track record of pursuing real-world robot outcomes (projects or competitions).

Responsibilities

• Evaluate our models on real robots in the lab and collect failure data to improve policies
• Build sim evals with varied scenes and edge cases
• Collect demonstration data with our capture hardware to fine-tune policies
• Set up and maintain robot arms, grippers, cameras, and sensors

Skills

Robotics hardware hands-on

Debugging across stack

Robotics policy evaluation

Real-world impact mindset

Job description

We're building manipulation models for deploying general-purpose robots. Our data infrastructure generates rich, multi-modal human demonstration data at exponential scale. We use it to train manipulation models that work reliably across tasks, objects, and robot embodiments.

A robot has no commercial value unless it works 99% of the time. Our research is focused on bridging the gap between 40% and 99% in real world deployments.

What you'll do:

• Evaluate our models on real robots in the lab and collect failure data to improve policies
• Build sim evals with varied scenes and edge cases
• Collect demonstration data with our capture hardware to fine-tune policies
• Set up and maintain robot arms, grippers, cameras, and sensors

You should have:

• Hands-on time with real robot hardware, even if it was just a course project or a competition
• Comfort debugging across the stack, from hardware and sensors to code to the model
• Experience evaluating or running policies, ideally in robotics, VLAs, world models, or imitation learning
• No aversion to unglamorous work, in robotics, research and debugging have to go hand-in-hand
• A track record that shows you want to see robots work in the real world, projects, research, or competitions

Our culture is built on honesty and a willingness to fail fast.

Comp:

• $20-$30/hr
• 10-14 weeks, beginning Jan 2027
• NYC office at Newlab, equipment budget, meals