Robotics Perception Intern: Vision & SLAM in Production

symbotic; Wilmington (MA); On-site; USD 44,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Housing benefits

Job summary

Symbotic is seeking Master’s/PhD students for Summer 2027 internships and co-ops on the Robot Perception team in Wilmington, MA. You will explore perception and computer vision projects, design datasets, and develop training pipelines from literature review to production deployment.

You'll tackle SLAM, sensor fusion, and multi‑robot algorithms, gaining mentorship and professional development while working with PyTorch/TensorFlow, OpenCV, ROS/ROS 2, and cloud tools.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
• Proficiency in Python and/or C++, including experience writing code and working in Jupyter notebooks.
• Experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Familiarity with computer vision and perception tools such as OpenCV, including image classification, object detection, segmentation, and camera calibration.
• Exposure to robotics perception concepts such as sensor fusion, SLAM, 3D pose representations, coordinate transforms, probabilistic graphical models, and Bayesian inference.
• Working knowledge of sensors, including RGB cameras, 3D sensors, and point cloud processing tools such as PCL.
• Experience working in Linux environments and using command‑line tools.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure, REST APIs, and/or SQL‑based data tools such as Snowflake.
• Exposure to deployment or optimization tools such as Docker, ROS/ROS 2, Jetson, ONNX, VLMs, or Vision‑Language‑Action models is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Research and experiment with traditional computer vision methods and deep learning methods for object detection, classification, segmentation, pose estimation, anomaly detection on images or videos.
• Evaluate and benchmark computer vision methods on production data.
• Deploy software to production on robot hardware.
• Design data pre and post processing methods.
• Document designs, code, experiments, evaluations.
• Identify high‑impact scenarios where AI Planning and machine learning can be applied to optimize the Symbotic robotics software.
• Adapt state‑of‑the‑art approaches or develop high‑performance algorithms to solve real‑world multi‑robot problems.
• Conduct simulations and experiments to validate the performance of the multi‑robot algorithms.
• Present results in verbal and written communications internally, and in top‑tier academic venues.

Skills

Python

C++

PyTorch

TensorFlow

OpenCV

ROS/ROS 2

Linux

Docker

Cloud platforms

PCL

SLAM

Sensor fusion

SQL/Snowflake

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/Robotics/EE/ML

Tools

Docker

ROS/ROS 2

Jetson

ONNX

VLMs

Job description

Symbotic is seeking Master’s/PhD students for Summer 2027 internships and co-ops on the Robot Perception team in Wilmington, MA. You will explore perception and computer vision projects, design datasets, and develop training pipelines from literature review to production deployment.

You'll tackle SLAM, sensor fusion, and multi‑robot algorithms, gaining mentorship and professional development while working with PyTorch/TensorFlow, OpenCV, ROS/ROS 2, and cloud tools.