Robotics Software Engineer Intern: Ship Code on Real Robots

Rhoda; Mountain View, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhoda AI in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Robot Software Engineer Intern to work on the software foundation of our generalist robots. You will own projects across on-robot software, networking, data pipelines, telemetry, and tooling, delivering code that runs on real hardware by the end of the internship.

Ideal candidates are pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in CS/Robotics/EE, with strong CS fundamentals and hands-on coding in C++, Python, Golang, or Rust.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field — or a recent graduate
• Solid computer science foundation: data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and networking
• Genuine passion for working on robots — coursework, research, personal projects, competition teams, or internships all count
• Strong programming skills in C++, Python, Golang, or Rust
• Curiosity and comfort working with physical hardware in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment
• Ability to debug across layers, from driver-level issues up to application behavior
• Open to learn new things and grow from knowing nothing to an expert on arbitrary technical topics

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

Golang

Rust

Education

CS/Robotics/EE

Job description

Rhoda AI in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Robot Software Engineer Intern to work on the software foundation of our generalist robots. You will own projects across on-robot software, networking, data pipelines, telemetry, and tooling, delivering code that runs on real hardware by the end of the internship.

Ideal candidates are pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in CS/Robotics/EE, with strong CS fundamentals and hands-on coding in C++, Python, Golang, or Rust.