Robotics Software Engineer - Summer 2026 Internship
About The Position
Paid Summer 2026 Internship (Jun. - Aug., dates flexible). Candidates must work full-time, in-person at our San Francisco office located in the Mission. What We're Building: We have been quietly building the foundational layers of our Physical AI Scientist platform: 🤖 Physical AI that can operate scientific instruments with human-level dexterity. 🧪 Scientific AI that can analyze results, reason about next steps, and close the loop autonomously. This is an incredibly ambitious mission, but we believe that a team of ambitious people with high ownership can accomplish incredible things. The Team: We’re a team of passionate, mission-driven engineers from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink. We’re collaborative and love moving fast, both with our product and on team trips skiing or go-karting! As a team, we love nerding out about engineering and robotics — plus other topics like race cars or cooking. We like learning new things and then sharing our new knowledge with each other. Our team is opinionated and straightforward. We don’t mind intense discussions about design tradeoffs. If we have arguments or miscommunication, we resolve conflicts quickly and empathetically.
Requirements
- A hacker’s mindset - getting quickly to a good-enough solution
- Proficient in Python
- Willingness to wear many hats / a flexible attitude towards responsibilities and scope
- Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and you may have competing priorities or deadlines.
- Passion for learning and expanding your skillset
- This position is 100% in-person, you must be able to come on-site to our San Francisco office.
Nice To Haves
- Experience or familiarity with robot arm manipulators
- Relevant research/work experience in one or more of the following areas: motion planning and trajectory optimization, kinematics and dynamics, and control.
- Experience with software engineering tools and best practices in production
Responsibilities
- Intern in our Robotics Software Engineering team, focusing on building the robots we use to accelerate science
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
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