Product / Data Science Intern

Zendar • Berkeley, CA

7d • Onsite

About The Position

Zendar is hiring a recent graduate for a six-month intern-to-hire role working across its robotics stack, including perception, controls, simulation, and robotic applications such as asset tracking and site monitoring. The role focuses on measurement: designing experiments and building tools to determine whether systems work, how well they work, and why. The intern will share findings with machine learning and control engineers and may have the opportunity to grow into a full-time junior engineering role. Priorities shift quickly, so the position suits someone comfortable with ambiguity, able to learn new domains rapidly, and interested in contributing to a complete autonomy stack.

The position is a 40-hour-per-week, in-office internship with a flexible start date. Zendar builds a radar-centric autonomy stack for vehicles and robots, developing its technology in-house, from radar hardware and signal processing to perception models and path and trajectory planning.

Requirements

• Recent graduate with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, or a related technical field.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Familiarity with Linux environments.
• Experience using agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.
• Experience designing and conducting experiments from a scientific perspective and applying statistical analysis to extract insights from noisy, real-world data.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to articulate technical results clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to drive loosely defined projects, adapt to changing requirements, and rapidly learn new technical domains.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with C++.
• Experience with GCP, BigQuery, or SQL.
• Experience processing sensor data such as radar, LiDAR, or camera feeds.
• Experience and enthusiasm for working directly with hardware and robotics platforms, including vehicles and sensor test rigs.
• Familiarity with ROS or robotics simulation software.
• Coursework or experience in controls, dynamics, or state estimation, such as MPC, Kalman filters, or odometry.
• Experience handling 3D data and spatial geometry, including point clouds, coordinate frames, and rigid-body transformations.
• Experience building data visualizations or interactive dashboards with tools such as Matplotlib, Plotly, or Streamlit.

Responsibilities

• Design and run experiments and test scenarios to measure performance across perception models, controllers, and robotic applications.
• Build and extend Python tools for evaluation, data analysis, and visualization.
• Support simulation workflows, data collection, and hands-on testing with vehicles, robots, and sensors.
• Help prototype and evaluate robotic applications, such as security monitoring and container inventory management.
• Present findings to machine learning, controls, and product engineering teams, and collaborate to track and resolve identified issues.

Benefits

• Daily catered lunch and a stocked fridge.
• Opportunity for the intern and team to assess mutual fit for a potential full-time junior role.
• Opportunity to make an impact at a young, venture-backed company in an emerging market.
• Collaboration with smart and motivated engineers and the ability to execute your vision in a high-impact role.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern