Robotics Perception Engineer Intern

Summary

Gritt AI is an innovative company that combines robotics and AI to enhance construction infrastructure. They are seeking a Robotics Perception Engineer Intern to develop perception components, build datasets, and integrate modules into their robotic systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evaluate perception components on real robot data
• Build datasets and evaluation harnesses; run experiments and report results
• Integrate your module into the live robot stack and demo it
• Get hands-on with pose estimation, VLMs, VLAs, 3D scene reconstruction, object detection, and multimodal learning
• Test your work on real robots at the office
• Opportunity to publish (for PhD interns)
• Attend Tier-1 industry conferences
• Example projects could be anything from building a robust 6DOF pose estimation stack that can work in harsh degraded outdoor conditions, to shipping a 3D object detection module for our manipulation stack

Skills

• Pursuing MS/PhD in CS, EE, Robotics, or related field
• Strong Python skills
• Experience with PyTorch and computer vision fundamentals
• Evidence of applied work: projects, competitions, publications, or industry robotics experience
• Should be comfortable taking ownership of tasks with light supervision
• Must have excellent problem-solving skills
• Legally authorized to do an internship in the United States for either 3 months or 6 months
• Experience with sensor drivers
• CUDA
• 3D geometry
• Multi-sensor fusion

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Pursuing MS/PhD in CS, EE, Robotics, or related field
• Strong Python skills
• Experience with PyTorch and computer vision fundamentals
• Evidence of applied work: projects, competitions, publications, or industry robotics experience
• Should be comfortable taking ownership of tasks with light supervision
• Must have excellent problem-solving skills
• Legally authorized to do an internship in the United States for either 3 months or 6 months

Nice to Haves

• Experience with sensor drivers
• CUDA
• 3D geometry
• multi-sensor fusion

Benefits

• Location: SF Bay Area (in-person)
• This will be an internship for one of two durations: 3 months, or 6 months.
• You own a defined deliverable end-to-end
• Work with a dedicated mentor
• Demo your work to the whole team
• Many interns receive return or full-time offers.
• Opportunity to work on a mission with tremendous climate impact.
• Opportunity to publish (for PhD interns).
• Attend Tier-1 industry conferences.