Robotics Autonomy Software Intern

Nextpower • Fremont, CA

6d • $40 - $50 • Onsite

About The Position

This internship focuses on developing vision-based obstacle awareness and short-horizon navigation capabilities for a ground robot operating primarily under teleoperation in outdoor, unstructured environments. The role is execution-focused and centers on deploying and evaluating existing vision models to assist teleoperators and enable partial autonomy modes on a solar site.

Requirements

• Currently in final year or recently graduated with a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in a related field
• Ability to commit to a 10–12-week internship beginning May 18, 2026 (Group 1) or June 15, 2026 (Group 2)
• Availability to work full-time onsite in Fremont, CA
• Python
• PyTorch
• OpenCV
• ROS2
• Docker
• GPU inference

Responsibilities

• Evaluate pretrained vision models for dynamic obstacle detection in outdoor environments
• Build a reproducible data pipeline from teleoperation logs (camera streams and teleoperator commands)
• Derive weak supervision signals from operator behavior
• Implement a real-time ROS2 vision node that outputs interpretable obstacle proximity and risk signals
• Integrate the vision-based navigation module cleanly into Autonomy software stack

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed