Robotics Research Scientist Intern: Dynamics & Planning

Holiday Robotics Inc.; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation stipend for out-of-state

Free daily meals

Potential full-time conversion

Job summary

Holiday Robotics Research Inc. offers a Research Scientist / Engineer Intern position focused on FRIDAY, the mobile humanoid robot.

Work spans dynamics, planning, control, dexterous manipulation, and robot learning, with an end-to-end project approach and a dedicated mentor. You will run reproducible experiments in Holiday-Newton and on FRIDAY, define metrics, analyze failures, and iterate quickly between simulation and hardware; on-site in Mountain View, CA for approximately six months with

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in BS/MS/PhD in robotics or closely related field.
• Strong foundation in dynamics, planning, control, dexterous manipulation, perception, or robot learning.
• Proficiency in Python or C++, with Linux experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evaluate dynamics, planning, and control algorithms for the robot.
• Run experiments in the in-house simulator and on FRIDAY; define metrics and iterate between sim and hardware.
• Own projects end-to-end with mentor guidance; document and present results.

Skills

Python

C++

Linux

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Robotics, CS, Mechanical Eng, or Electrical Eng

Tools

ROS 2

MuJoCo

Drake

Warp

JAX

PyTorch

Job description

Holiday Robotics Research Inc. offers a Research Scientist / Engineer Intern position focused on FRIDAY, the mobile humanoid robot.

Work spans dynamics, planning, control, dexterous manipulation, and robot learning, with an end-to-end project approach and a dedicated mentor. You will run reproducible experiments in Holiday-Newton and on FRIDAY, define metrics, analyze failures, and iterate quickly between simulation and hardware; on-site in Mountain View, CA for approximately six months with