Research Intern

The role

As a Research Intern, you will work directly with the Rhoda AI team on major research and engineering projects. Your focus will be set by your mentor based on what the project needs, across areas such as robot policy learning, multimodal models, simulation, and SLAM or navigation.

What you will do

• Contribute directly to a major, ongoing research project
• Work closely with your assigned mentor and the broader research team
• Focus on project-specific work defined by your mentor

Required qualifications

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related field, close to graduation preferred
• Strong Masters or BS candidates with equivalent research experience will also be considered
• Strong foundation in deep learning, with hands-on experience training and debugging large models
• Solid software engineering skills and production-quality research code
• Experience with one or more of: video or generative models, VLMs or multimodal architectures, robot learning, simulation environments, or SLAM/navigation
• Track record of independent research
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, resource-constrained startup research environment

Nice to have

• Publications

Benefits

• Direct collaboration with an assigned mentor from day one, with regular guidance and feedback
• Access to compute resources scoped to your project
• Structured interview process, a mid-internship check-in, and an end-of-internship evaluation
• Opportunity to work on problems for a real generalist-robotics product
• Potential full-time offer at the end of the internship

Before you apply

• Interview process includes domain knowledge and coding interviews

About the company

Rhoda AI builds generalist intelligent robots, owning the full stack from hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and foundation world models that control them. The company has raised over $450M.