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PhD Research Intern, Robotics - Summer 2027

NVIDIA· Intern
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About the role

PhD candidate internship focusing on robotics and AI research at NVIDIA's Seattle Robotics Lab, delivering hands-on technical contributions across perception, planning, control, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, simulation, and robotics foundation models with potential for real-world impact 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, including collaborative robot arms, industrial robot arms, mobile manipulators, humanoids, and dexterous hands
  • Contributing to multi-person research projects requiring diverse skills across the 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 while ensuring correctness, reproducibility, and security

Qualifications

  • Enrolled in a PhD program in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
  • Knowledge of both theory and practice of robotics and AI with strong interest linking work to real-world applications
  • Demonstrated research track record with first-author work published in top conferences/journals (e.g., RSS, CoRL, ICRA, IJRR, T-RO, Science Robotics, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, EMNLP)
  • Exceptional communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills with significant teamwork experience
  • Exceptional programming skills in Python; familiarity with C++, CUDA, and Warp is a plus
  • Fluency in PyTorch or JAX
  • Experience in AI coding and research agents with critical validation of outputs
  • Experience with robotics frameworks such as ROS2 and physics simulation frameworks such as Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Newton, and/or MuJoCo
  • Ability to work through complexities of simulation and real-world robotics, including debugging physics simulators/renderers, setting up/maintaining/enhancing complex robotics hardware, debugging communication systems, and designing robust workflows for model training and evaluation

Skills

Required:PythonPyTorchROS2
Nice to have:C++CUDAWarpJAXMuJoCo
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