Simulation Engineer Intern: Neural Rendering for Real World Autonomy

Bedrock Robotics Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedrock Robotics Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Simulation intern to push neural rendering into our simulation pipeline and measure its impact on autonomy performance across construction-site scenarios.

You will research NeRF, 3D Gaussian splatting, and related techniques, train models on real-world site data, and develop metrics to assess visual fidelity and render speed, with close collaboration with perception and planning teams to ensure practical deployment.

Qualifications

• Pursuing or holding a degree in CS/Graphics/Robotics or related field.
• Strong Python and hands-on experience with PyTorch (or equivalent).
• Solid understanding of 3D graphics pipelines, representations, and camera models.
• Familiarity with neural scene representations (NeRF, Gaussian splatting, neural radiance fields).
• Comfort working with messy, real-world construction-site data.

Responsibilities

• Research, implement, and benchmark neural rendering methods (NeRF, 3D Gaussian splatting) for generating realistic construction-site imagery within our simulation stack.
• Train models on real-world site data captured by our fleet and evaluate visual fidelity, temporal consistency, and render speed.
• Integrate neural rendering outputs into the simulation pipeline so perception and planning teams can train and test against them.
• Build evaluation metrics and tooling to quantify how well rendered scenes match real fleet data and transfer to autonomy performance.
• Identify and address failure modes: dynamic objects, deformable terrain, dust, harsh lighting on sites.
• Document findings and provide recommendations on where neural rendering should replace traditional sim assets.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

3D graphics fundamentals

Neural scene representations

Real-world data handling

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/Graphics/Robotics or related field

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

NVIDIA Isaac Sim

CUDA

OpenGL

Vulkan

Job description

Bedrock Robotics Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Simulation intern to push neural rendering into our simulation pipeline and measure its impact on autonomy performance across construction-site scenarios.

You will research NeRF, 3D Gaussian splatting, and related techniques, train models on real-world site data, and develop metrics to assess visual fidelity and render speed, with close collaboration with perception and planning teams to ensure practical deployment.