Atlas VLA Research Intern (Robotics)

Location: Waltham Office, United States

Hourly pay: $30–$70 per hour

Company

hirify.global develops advanced mobile and humanoid robots, including Atlas.

What you will do

• Lead a research project establishing hypotheses and experiments for VLA/WAM performance.
• Extend benchmarking, training, and evaluation across teleoperation, UMI-style, VQA, and other data sources.
• Prototype and deploy data collection, mixing, grading, training recipes, and algorithms on Atlas, moving from simulation to hardware.
• Collaborate across teams to integrate learned policies with low-level robot control.
• Extend data pipelines and write production-grade Python/C++ code for existing systems.

Requirements

• Actively pursuing a PhD, preferably, or a research-heavy Master’s in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• Expertise in training and deploying imitation learning models, including VLAs/WAMs, for robotics.
• Strong experimental hygiene and clear knowledge of the state of the art and areas for community improvement.

Nice to have

• Understanding of machine learning best practices, architectures, and scaling laws across domains.
• Experience troubleshooting and deploying algorithms on physical robot platforms, especially mobile and humanoid robots.
• Experience with large-scale datasets such as EgoScale and Open X-Embodiment, or specialized data collection approaches such as Universal Manipulation Interface.
• Experience with Kubernetes, SLURM, distributed GPU training, and maintaining high-quality codebases.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time internship on the Atlas VLA Research Team.
• Work involves direct deployment to advanced physical robot hardware rather than pure theory.
• Hourly base pay depends on internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, education, and experience.