Robotic Foundation Model Engineer Intern (Human)

The role

You will drive the development of cognitive robotics applications through Physical AI and the NeuraGym platform. This involves training and fine-tuning foundation models, working with real robot hardware, and providing customer enablement and support.

What you will do

• Drive the development of cognitive robotics applications through Physical AI and the NeuraGym platform.
• Execute the full NeuraGym pipeline including teleoperation, data annotation, training, simulation, deployment, and validation.
• Define the data strategy and own the full post-training loop.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to design and optimize robotic systems.
• Guide and onboard users to NeuraGym by reviewing pipelines and troubleshooting model behavior.
• Serve as a key interface between the Cloud and AI teams.
• Translate field experience and customer insights into feedback for product and research roadmaps.

Required qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related field
• Hands-on machine-learning experience in robotics in at least one of: vision-based manipulation, reinforcement/imitation learning, or multimodal models
• Demonstrable experience fine-tuning large pretrained models for robotics or another domain: PEFT/LoRA and full fine-tunes, dataset curation, distillation, and evaluation.
• Solid Python skills
• Practical experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Comfortable working directly with real robot hardware and associated middleware
• Proven problem-solving abilities
• Ability to handle multiple projects in parallel
• Strong bias toward execution and a high level of personal commitment
• Clear communicator
• Good command of English language
• Good command of German language (B2 - C1 level)

Nice to have

• Familiarity with the open VLA and policy-learning ecosystem (e.g. π0/π0.5, OpenVLA, LeRobot, diffusion policies)
• C++
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with robotic simulation tools (IsaacSim, MuJoCo, etc.)

About the company

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