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PhD Research Intern, Robotics - Summer 2027

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Hybrid (US, WA, Seattle), Hybrid (US, CA, Santa Clara)$38/hr - $94/hrinternshipPosted 4w ago

About the role

PhD candidate internship in NVIDIA Seattle Robotics Lab focusing on robotics and AI research across perception, planning, control, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, simulation, and robotics foundation models with opportunities to contribute to real-world systems and publications.

Responsibilities

  • Developing algorithms, foundation models, and methods for robotic manipulation and/or loco-manipulation for industrial, scientific, and household applications
  • Integrating these methods into real-world robotic manipulation systems (collaborative robot arms, industrial robot arms, mobile manipulators, humanoids, dexterous hands)
  • Contributing to multi-person research projects across robotics and machine learning stack
  • Engaging with the academic community through high-impact publications, conferences, workshops, and/or code releases
  • Developing AI agents to accelerate research and engineering with emphasis on correctness, reproducibility, and security

Qualifications

  • Enrolled in a PhD program in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
  • Knowledge of theory and practice of robotics and AI with interest in real-world applications
  • First-author work published in top robotics/AI venues (RSS, CoRL, ICRA, IJRR, T-RO, Science Robotics, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, EMNLP) or equivalent
  • Exceptional communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills; team experience
  • Exceptional Python programming skills; familiarity with C++, CUDA, and Warp is a plus
  • Fluency in PyTorch or JAX
  • Experience with AI coding and research agents and validation of outputs
  • Experience with robotics frameworks such as ROS2 and physics simulation frameworks (Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Newton, MuJoCo)
  • Comfort debugging physics simulators/renderers, setting up and maintaining robotics hardware, debugging communication systems, and designing robust model training/evaluation workflows

Skills

Required:PythonPyTorch or JAXROS2Communication
Nice to have:C++CUDAWarpIsaac Sim / MuJoCo / physics simulation

Benefits

  • Intern benefits (per NVIDIA) as linked
  • Intern hourly rate: 38 USD - 94 USD
  • Location-based compensation considerations
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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