Robotics Engineer Intern

Robotics Center of Silicon Valley (DeepAware, Inc.), YC S25 and NVIDIA Inception, is building the full-stack robotics supply chain: hardware, data, AI training, and live deployment under one roof. Our San Francisco lab puts 60+ robot platforms within reach and powers one of the largest real-robot datasets anywhere. We're building the infrastructure layer for physical AI.

As a Robotics Engineer Intern, you'll develop and integrate autonomous systems across our fleet and at customer deployment sites — building the "robotic hands" that turn our platforms and datasets into production-ready systems for enterprises and researchers.

Responsibilities

• Design robotic manipulation and navigation systems for constrained, high-density, real-world environments
• Integrate vision systems for automated inspection, manipulation, and anomaly detection
• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to connect robotics control with real-time data and training pipelines
• Bring up, prototype, test, and refine robotic hardware and software across our multi-platform fleet and at pilot deployment sites
• Ensure the reliability, safety, and scalability of robotics solutions for continuous operation

Requirements

We're looking for a true full-stack roboticist who is fluent across software, hardware, and mechanical domains:

• Software: Proficiency with robotics frameworks such as ROS/ROS2, MoveIt, and OpenCV; strong control algorithms and the ability to iterate quickly in a startup environment
• Hardware: Hands-on experience with embedded systems, sensors, actuators, wiring, and robot bring-up and integration
• Mechanical: Working understanding of robot mechanics — arm kinematics, mounting and fixturing, end-effectors, and the physical assembly/debugging of real hardware