# PhD-candidate Intern - Robotics Research

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Job type**: internship
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA's Seattle Robotics Lab is seeking PhD-candidate interns to contribute to research efforts in robotics, AI, and machine learning.

The lab focuses on fundamental and applied research across the robotics stack, including perception, planning, control, and reinforcement learning.

As an intern, you will:

- Develop algorithms and methods for robotic manipulation and loco-manipulation

- Integrate methods into real-world robotic systems

- Contribute to multi-person research projects

- Engage with the academic community through publications and conferences

- Develop AI agents to accelerate research and engineering

Requirements:

- Enrolled in a PhD program in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related field

- Knowledge of robotics and AI theory and practice

- Demonstrated research track record with publications in top conferences and journals

- Exceptional programming skills in Python, with familiarity with C++, CUDA, and Warp a plus

- Fluency in modern deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX

- Experience with robotics frameworks and physics simulation frameworks

Research areas of interest include:

- Bimanual and dexterous manipulation

- Mobile manipulation and humanoid loco-manipulation

- Multimodal robot learning

- Simulation and sim-to-real transfer

- Robot foundation models and agentic robotics

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- C++
- CUDA
- Warp
- PyTorch
- JAX
- robotics
- machine learning
- AI
- deep learning

### Nice to have
- ROS2
- Isaac Sim
- Isaac Lab
- Newton
- MuJoCo

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