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Robotics Research, Robot Learning & Manipulation Intern (Spring, Summer, & Fall 2027)

FieldAI· Internships – Engineering - Mission, Interaction & Intelligence
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Irvine, CAInternPosted 1w ago

About the role

Internship in Irvine for Master’s and PhD students advancing robotic manipulation. Focus on researching how robots perform useful physical tasks reliably across diverse objects, environments, and robot platforms, with hardware testing and deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Develop manipulation capabilities that address meaningful physical tasks in real environments.
  • Investigate how skills transfer across objects, tasks, environments, and robot platforms.
  • Address practical challenges such as uncertainty, contact, changing conditions, and failure recovery.
  • Design experiments that measure task success, generalization, and reliability under realistic operating conditions.
  • Integrate and validate research on physical robots, collaborating with engineering teams to address system constraints.
  • Document findings, present results, and contribute to publications or reusable research tools.

Qualifications

  • Current master’s or PhD enrollment in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, AI/ML, or a closely related field.
  • Research experience in robotic manipulation, robot learning, embodied AI, or a related area.
  • A strong research or open-source track record, demonstrated through substantive publications, research software, or technically rigorous projects.
  • Clear ownership of original research or technical development, including implementation and evaluation.
  • Strong foundations in robotics, machine learning, and experimental design.
  • Proficiency in Python and/or C++.
  • Ability to work independently, communicate findings clearly, and collaborate across research and engineering disciplines.

Skills

Required:Manipulation and robotic task executionTransfer learning across objects/tasks/environmentsExperimental design and evaluationRobotics hardware integrationResearch communication and publication

Benefits

  • Real deployment problems: Work on manipulation challenges grounded in customer use cases and operational needs, with opportunities to evaluate beyond controlled laboratory settings.
  • Physical robots and hardware: Develop and validate your work on robotic systems, including humanoids, mobile manipulators, and arm-equipped quadrupeds.
  • Research ownership: Shape a focused project, propose your approach, and carry it through implementation, experimentation, and hardware validation.
  • Deployment feedback: Use observations and failure cases from real operation to guide research and improve reliability.
  • Close technical collaboration: Work with researchers and engineers across robot learning, perception, control, hardware, and deployment.
  • Research contributions: Pursue work suitable for leading conferences and journals, with opportunities to release code, datasets, or other research artifacts.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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