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Robotics Research, Embodied AI Intern (Spring & Summer 2027)

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

About the role

Internship role focusing on embodied AI and robotics research across multiple areas, with hands-on experimentation on real robots and potential for publications.

Responsibilities

  • Robot Behavior & Learning: Research methods for learning, adapting, and generating robot behaviors from demonstrations, interaction, experience, and real-world data, enabling robots to perform long-horizon tasks in dynamic and unstructured environments.
  • Active Perception & Embodied Reasoning: Develop methods that enable robots to actively reason about what to inspect, where to observe, and what actions to take next based on task objectives, observations, uncertainty, and environmental context.
  • Human-Robot Interaction: Develop approaches for intuitive human-robot collaboration, including natural task specification, interactive robot behaviors, human-in-the-loop reasoning, and adaptation to user intent and feedback.
  • Embodied AI Models: Investigate and adapt foundation models, including vision-language models, vision-language-action models, and world models, for reasoning, planning, interaction, and decision-making on physical robots.
  • Real-Robot Experimentation: Implement and evaluate research algorithms on robotic platforms operating in realistic, unstructured environments, and use deployment data to iteratively improve the underlying methods.
  • Research & Publication: Conduct cutting-edge research in embodied AI and robotics, design rigorous experiments and evaluations, and contribute to publications at leading robotics and AI conferences and journals.

Qualifications

  • Currently pursuing or recently completed a PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
  • Strong research foundation in one or more areas such as robot learning, planning and decision-making, embodied AI, perception, active perception, or human-robot interaction.
  • Familiarity with state-of-the-art research in embodied AI and robotics.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++.
  • Experience with modern machine learning frameworks.
  • Experience developing and evaluating algorithms for robotic or embodied systems.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to formulate research questions and design rigorous experiments.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across research and engineering teams.

Skills

Required:Robot learningPlanning and decision-makingPerceptionPythonMachine learning frameworks
Nice to have:Human-robot interactionC++

Benefits

  • Be Part of the Next Robotics Revolution – opportunity to contribute to real-world deployments.
  • Collaborative, world-class team with diverse experiences from leading organizations.
  • Chance to ship systems that perform in the real world and get tested on hardware.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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