ML Research Engineer, Intern

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Job Summary:

Roboforce is seeking a ML Research Engineer Intern to join their team in developing advanced AI capabilities for robotics. The intern will collaborate closely with AI engineers and work on building the foundational AI ecosystem while gaining hands-on experience in solving real-world challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Research and experiment with new ML models for perception and/or complex manipulation tasks, including:

• Spatial AI: 3D reconstruction, neural rendering, SLAM, etc.

• State Estimation: pose estimation, tracking, depth estimation, etc.

• Robot Learning: imitation learning, reinforcement learning, etc.

• Multimodal Fusion: model combining different sensor inputs and modalities.

• Collaborate with robotics, hardware, and product teams to ensure seamless AI model integration.

• Conduct experiments and evaluations with the goal of advancing state-of-the-art performance and contributing to research publications.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a PhD degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related field.

• Proficiency in multimodal models, modern ML architectures (e.g., transformers, diffusion models), and reinforcement learning.

• Proficiency in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.

• Requires 5 days/week in-office collaboration with the teams.

Preferred:

• Exposure to robot learning through tactile and/or vision-based sensors.

• Expertise in object pose estimation, bimanual manipulation, and synthetic data.

Company:

RoboForce is an AI Robotics startup building the world’s most advanced Robo-Labor system. Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Milpitas, California, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage. RoboForce has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.