Robotics Platform Software Engineer Intern

Roboticsconnected; Mountain View (WY); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhoda AI is seeking a Software Engineer Intern to work on the Rhoda Platform, owning projects across the software stack from onboard systems to cloud data pipelines. You’ll collaborate with ML, perception, and control teams and ship code that runs on real robots by the end of the internship.

The role emphasizes deep debugging across layers, hands-on hardware work, and developing tooling to accelerate robotics software development. You’ll gain real ownership on a small team.

Qualifications

• Pursuing undergrad/grad in CS, robotics, EE, or related field, or recent graduate.
• Solid CS foundation: data structures, algorithms, OS, networking.
• Passion for robotics; coursework, research, projects, or internships.
• Strong programming in C++, Python, Go, or Rust.
• Curious and comfortable with hardware in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to debug across layers from driver to application.
• Open to learn and grow from basics to expert.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the networking and communication infrastructure connecting onboard robot systems to each other, to the cloud, and to teleoperation and monitoring systems.
• Help build data collection pipelines that capture sensor, telemetry, and behavioral data from the robot and upload it reliably to cloud storage for model training.
• Work on telemetry and observability systems that give the team real-time visibility into robot health and field performance.
• Build internal tooling that accelerates robot software development: deployment pipelines, logging, debugging tools, and field testing utilities.
• Support bring-up and field testing on live hardware, debugging issues across the onboard software stack.
• Collaborate with ML, perception, and control engineers to keep onboard systems reliable and training data high quality.
• Automate internal workflows to improve execution efficiency of the Rhoda teams.

Skills

C++

Python

Go (Golang)

Rust

Algorithms

Networking

Education

Undergraduate or graduate degree in CS/Robotics/EE or related field

Tools

gRPC

DDS

QUIC

WebSockets

Job description

Rhoda AI is seeking a Software Engineer Intern to work on the Rhoda Platform, owning projects across the software stack from onboard systems to cloud data pipelines. You’ll collaborate with ML, perception, and control teams and ship code that runs on real robots by the end of the internship.

The role emphasizes deep debugging across layers, hands-on hardware work, and developing tooling to accelerate robotics software development. You’ll gain real ownership on a small team.