Robotics Intern (Post-Training and Continual Learning)

Location: Los Altos, California, United States; hybrid, in-office role

Salary: $45–$65 per hour for California-based roles

Company

hirify.global develops tools and capabilities in AI, robotics, driving, and material sciences to improve the quality of human life.

What you will do

• Develop post-training methods that adapt pretrained generalist robot policies to new tasks, environments, and robotic systems.
• Design and conduct rigorous experiments in simulation and, where appropriate, on real robotic systems.
• Analyze results, communicate findings, and contribute to research publications and internal technical reports.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field.
• Research experience in robot learning, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, generative modeling, world models, or a related area.
• Interest in open research problems involving large-scale machine learning grounded in physical systems.
• Proficiency in Python and a deep-learning framework such as PyTorch.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with researchers and engineers and communicate research findings clearly.

Nice to have

• Experience with pretrained generalist policies, foundation models, or large-scale robot-learning systems.
• Familiarity with offline or online reinforcement learning, DAgger, interactive learning, or human-in-the-loop methods.
• Experience with simulation, sim-to-real transfer, policy distillation, or robotic manipulation.
• Experience with learned world models, model-based reinforcement learning, or planning.
• Publication record or interest in publishing at leading venues such as CoRL, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, RSS, ICRA, IROS, or related conferences and journals.
• Interest in translating fundamental research into reliable methods evaluated on real robotic systems and practical downstream tasks.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid 12-week internship.
• Hybrid, in-office work arrangement.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid time off, including holiday pay and sick time.