Robotics Intern

We’re building manipulation models for deploying general-purpose robots. Our data infrastructure generates rich, multi-modal human demonstration data at exponential scale. We use it to train manipulation models that work reliably across tasks, objects, and robot embodiments.

A robot has no commercial value unless it works 99% of the time. Our research is focused on bridging the gap between 40% and 99% in real world deployments.

What you’ll do:

Evaluate our models on real robots in the lab and collect failure data to improve policies Build sim evals with varied scenes and edge cases Collect demonstration data with our capture hardware to fine-tune policies Set up and maintain robot arms, grippers, cameras, and sensors

You should have:

Hands-on time with real robot hardware, even if it was just a course project or a competition Comfort debugging across the stack, from hardware and sensors to code to the model Experience evaluating or running policies, ideally in robotics, VLAs, world models, or imitation learning No aversion to unglamorous work, in robotics, research and debugging have to go hand-in-hand A track record that shows you want to see robots work in the real world, projects, research, or competitions

Our culture is built on honesty and a willingness to fail fast. If you see yourself fitting here, please apply.

Comp:

$20-$30/hr 10-14 weeks, beginning Jan 2027 NYC office at Newlab, equipment budget, meals