Reinforcement Learning Engineering Intern

Persona AI Inc • Pensacola, FL

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Reinforcement Learning Engineering Internship is an opportunity for Bachelors and Masters candidate students to join and contribute to the Persona team as we develop our industrial humanoids. Our objective is to provide each intern with a positive learning environment, hands-on experience with humanoids, and ownership over their own project direction. We are looking for students with an excitement for learning, technical excellence, and creative problem-solving skills.
Each intern will have a designated mentor to provide guidance and assistance in developing and making progress towards a target goal. We have a strong bias for projects that lead to software, controls, or policies deployed on our hardware and extending the capabilities of our systems. Projects will be jointly planned by the intern and their mentor to build on the intern’s background, extend their experience to new areas of interest, and fit into the broader goals of the Persona reinforcement learning team.
For this role, the specific tasks will be defined prior to the start date by the mentor and the intern based on their experience, proficiencies, and personal interests. The scope may also be adjusted to fit the project within the intern’s time-frame. We encourage interns to share their interests even if they may be entirely different from their technical background. Some example general tasks that may be a part of any project are described below:
Develop new simulation training environments
Design new behaviors or extend capabilities for the Persona robots
Deploy to hardware, log data, and analyze results
Create or implement new algorithms for modeling, training, sensing, or deployment
Characterize hardware sensors, actuators, and general robot parameters

Requirements

• Current Undergraduate or Masters student
• Software proficiency in Python, C/C++, Java, or Rust
• Experience with basic machine learning concepts

Nice To Haves

• Worked with Pytorch or similar
• Physics simulator experience such as IsaacLab/IsaacSim, Mujoco, or similar
• Deployed controls software to robot hardware
• Trained policies with reinforcement learning
• Worked with motion diffusion models or VLAs
• Experience with character animation
• Worked on vision or localization

Responsibilities

• Develop new simulation training environments
• Design new behaviors or extend capabilities for the Persona robots
• Deploy to hardware, log data, and analyze results
• Create or implement new algorithms for modeling, training, sensing, or deployment
• Characterize hardware sensors, actuators, and general robot parameters

Benefits

• You'll shape technology that's redefining the possibilities of robotics and human interaction.
• Work alongside passionate teammates who value diversity, creativity, and continuous learning.
• Enjoy full access to advanced prototyping tools, labs, and the freedom to experiment and innovate.
• We offer competitive compensation, excellent benefits, flexible work environment, and equity opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees