Robotics Intern - Mobile Manipulation, Hardware

Toyota Research Institute • Los Altos, CA

97d • $45 - $65

About The Position

At Toyota Research Institute (TRI), we’re on a mission to improve the quality of human life. We’re developing new tools and capabilities to amplify the human experience. To lead this transformative shift in mobility, we’ve built a world-class team in Energy & Materials, Human-Centered AI, Human Interactive Driving, and Robotics. This internship will be embedded within a world-class Robotics team with the mission to develop and integrate innovative solutions that enable a robot to perform complex, human-level mobile manipulation tasks, navigate with and among people, and learn and adapt over time. The team emphasizes developing, deploying, and validating systems in real-world environments. TRI has the runway, roadmap, and expertise to transition the technology development to a product that impacts the lives of millions of people. Apply to join a fast moving team that demands high-risk innovation and learning from failures, using rigorous processes to identify key technologies, develop a robust, high quality system, and quantitatively evaluate performance. As part of the team, you will be surrounded and supported by experts in mobile manipulation at TRI, and be a part of TRI's positive and diverse culture!

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in an engineering-related field.
• Experience designing and integrating hardware for real-world robotic systems, particularly mobile manipulation systems.
• Experience in creative and novel design along with integration of mechanical, control, and sensing systems, including various fabrication techniques and materials.
• The ability to design and deploy integrated mechanical/sensing systems that complement and bring to bear advanced software and learning algorithms.
• Experience in architecture, schematic design, and PCB layout of complex electrical subsystems.
• The ability to implement interface, communications, and control firmware, with microcontrollers or FPGAs.
• Experience in design for small scale contract manufacturing and assembly, and working with industrial designers for early stage product design.
• An outstanding teammate with strong interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and development of a next generation mobile manipulation platform to accelerate advancement of useful human-scale tasks.
• Develop prototypes and perform trade studies to identify and specify key system components, including sensors, compute, communications, and actuation, of the platform.
• Design and integrate creative solutions; combining actuation, structure, and sensing, as well as new mechanisms and actuation for human-scale manipulation and mobility.
• Design, bring up, and debug custom electrical sub-systems, including power systems, motor control, and sensor interfaces, and the overall electrical system.
• Develop firmware for control of mechanisms, acquisition of sensor data, and communications with the rest of the system.

Benefits

• Generous benefits package including vacation and sick time.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees