Research Intern - World-Action Foundation Model, Robotics

Applied Industrial Technologies
Sunnyvale
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Skills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Research interns join Applied Intuition’s AI Research group to develop next-generation physical AI for autonomous driving and robotic generalist systems. You’ll conduct pretraining research on world-action foundation models, explore vision-physics and other modalities, and collaborate with scientists to publish top-tier work while deploying methods to real-world autonomous/robotic platforms.

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Research Intern - World-Action Foundation Model, Robotics

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Job Summary

Research interns join Applied Intuition’s AI Research group to develop next-generation physical AI for autonomous driving and robotic generalist systems. You’ll conduct pretraining research on world-action foundation models, explore vision-physics and other modalities, and collaborate with scientists to publish top-tier work while deploying methods to real-world autonomous/robotic platforms.
Location: Sunnyvale
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)
Seniority: Intern level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Conduct research on pretraining world-action foundation model with various world modalities including vision and physics associated with ego actions, serving the purpose for both robot action and simulation world generation
  • •Diving into relevant topics such as vision-physics modality association, feed-forward Gaussian splatting, world foundation model, human data incorporation, language modality, and spatial reasoning, deformable object modeling and simulation
  • •Work closely with the Research Scientists and Engineers on high quality research publications for submission to top-tier conferences
  • •Contribute to and learn from best practices in autonomy and robotics within a fast-paced, customer-focused culture
  • •Translate research into deployable methods for autonomous robotic systems and share findings with the broader team

Key Requirements

  • •Current PhD (or MSc) studies in machine learning, computer vision and graphics, robotics
  • •Strong research background and skills on relevant topics, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively on projects
  • •Passion for next-generation, scalable autonomy and robotics
Experience:AutonomyRoboticsAI research
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Gaussian splattingFoundation modelsVisionRoboticsLanguage modalities

Company Brief

Applied Industrial Technologies
Builds software tools for autonomous vehicle development, including simulation, validation, and data infrastructure for automakers and robotics teams. Also supports defense applications with autonomy-focused testing and deployment platforms.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Mountain View, United States
Founded: 2017
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