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Internship - Software Engineering

RAI Institute· Engineering
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ZurichIntern/Co-opPosted 2mo ago

About the role

Master's students sought for a 6-month full-time internship in robotics software engineering, with tracks in On-Robot Deployment or Off-Robot Training Infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Track A: On-Robot Deployment - Write robust, low-latency modern C++ code for real-time execution on robotic hardware
  • Implement and optimize for embedded platforms like the Jetson family
  • Profile, benchmark, and eliminate performance bottlenecks in resource-constrained Linux environments
  • Design and build clean software components using modern software engineering practices and ROS 2
  • Track B: Off-Robot Training Infrastructure - Design and build scalable software infrastructure for GPU based simulation and model training
  • Optimize parallel compute pipelines, rendering processes, and data ingestion to accelerate research cycles
  • Implement SOTA reinforcement learning algorithms to improve training performance

Qualifications

  • Currently pursuing a Master's (MS) degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Computational Science & Engineering, or a related field
  • Prior software engineering experience (e.g., industry internships, significant open-source contributions, or complex project work)
  • For On-Robot Deployment: Exceptional core software engineering foundations in Modern C++, system architecture, data structures, and memory management (C++ or another systems language is strictly required for this track)
  • For Off-Robot Infrastructure: Strong systems programming skills (C++, Python, etc.) with a deep interest in high-performance computing, distributed systems, or large-scale data processing. Experience with high level GPU programming languages (Warp, Jax) is a plus.

Skills

Required:Modern C++System programming
Nice to have:GPU / parallel computingROS 2
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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