Robotics Research Intern: Dynamics, Manipulation & Learning

Holiday Robotics; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free daily meals

Relocation stipend for out-of-state

Job summary

Holiday Robotics Research Inc. is seeking a Research Scientist / Engineer Intern to contribute to FRIDAY, the mobile humanoid robot, in dynamics, planning, control, dexterous manipulation, or robot learning.

You will own a focused project, work with researchers and engineers, and evaluate progress in simulation and on FRIDAY. The internship is full-time, on-site in Mountain View, CA, for ~ six months (three months minimum).

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a BS, MS, or Ph.D. program in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field.
• Strong proficiency in Python or C++, with experience in Linux development and debugging.
• Hands-on experience with physical robots and robot-learning work is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Within your focus area, develop and evaluate dynamics, planning, and control algorithms; multimodal dexterous-manipulation methods; or robot-learning policies using reinforcement and imitation learning.
• Run reproducible experiments in an in-house simulator, Holiday-Newton, and on FRIDAY, define evaluation metrics, analyze failure modes, and iterate quickly between simulation and hardware.
• Own your project end-to-end, from problem formulation through final evaluation, with guidance from a designated mentor.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, perception, simulation, and robotics research teams, and document and present your results at the end of the internship.

Skills

Python

C++

Linux

Robotics

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Robotics, CS, ME, EE, or related field

Tools

ROS 2

MuJoCo

Drake

Warp

JAX

PyTorch

Job description

Holiday Robotics Research Inc. is seeking a Research Scientist / Engineer Intern to contribute to FRIDAY, the mobile humanoid robot, in dynamics, planning, control, dexterous manipulation, or robot learning.

You will own a focused project, work with researchers and engineers, and evaluate progress in simulation and on FRIDAY. The internship is full-time, on-site in Mountain View, CA, for ~ six months (three months minimum).