Robotics Software Intern: Build & Deploy Real-World Robots

Dream Robotics Inc; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Dream Robotics Inc is seeking an Robotics Software & AI Intern in Mountain View, CA. The role targets undergraduates/new grads in robotics, CS, AI, or related fields who want real-world robot systems experience.

You’ll work on data pipelines for robot learning, perception tasks, telemetry, teleoperation, and robot control software, gaining exposure to production robotics stacks and debugging across hardware and software.

Qualifications

• Pursuing or completed undergraduate degree in computer science, robotics, AI, or related field.
• Strong programming ability, especially in Python.
• Experience with C++, Rust, or another systems language is helpful.
• Comfort using Linux and the command line.
• Experience building software projects beyond class assignments.
• Interest in robotics, machine learning, computer vision, controls, or autonomous systems.
• Ability to debug problems methodically and learn unfamiliar systems quickly.
• Willingness to work directly with robots, including setup, testing, and troubleshooting hardware and software.
• Excitement about building systems that work reliably in the real world.

Responsibilities

• Building labeling and data-processing pipelines for robot learning datasets.
• Developing pipelines for hand pose estimation, activity classification, and other perception tasks.
• Building fleet telemetry, observability systems, dashboards, and tools for understanding robot behavior.
• Developing teleoperation software and interfaces for controlling and collecting data from robots.
• Writing robot control software, including lower-level control and motion execution code.
• Building model evaluation, verification, regression testing, and failure-analysis tools.
• Developing simulation environments and evaluation infrastructure.
• Working on reinforcement learning or imitation learning systems.
• Processing robot demonstrations, video, sensor data, and robot logs.
• Building software for data collection, dataset curation, and experiment management.
• Debugging networking, sensors, cameras, actuators, drivers, and robot software.
• Improving software infrastructure used to deploy and operate robots in the real world.

Skills

Python

C++

Linux

Debugging

Robotics

Education

Undergraduate degree in CS/Robotics/Engineering

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

Job description

Dream Robotics Inc is seeking an Robotics Software & AI Intern in Mountain View, CA. The role targets undergraduates/new grads in robotics, CS, AI, or related fields who want real-world robot systems experience.

You’ll work on data pipelines for robot learning, perception tasks, telemetry, teleoperation, and robot control software, gaining exposure to production robotics stacks and debugging across hardware and software.