Research Intern
Rhoda AI · Mountain View
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At a glance
Highlights
- Contribute directly to a major ongoing generalist-robotics research project.
- Build next-generation generalist robots for complex real-world environments.
- Tackle real product problems with dedicated mentor guidance and compute access.
What they offer
- Direct collaboration with assigned mentor and research team
- Project-scoped compute resources
- Potential full-time offer after end-of-internship evaluation
Ideal candidate
PhD student near graduation (or exceptional Masters/BS researcher) who thrives in fast-moving startup research and wants to ship real robotics. Independent, hands-on builder comfortable owning production-quality research code for a major project.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing or recently completed PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning or related field, close to graduation preferred; strong Masters/BS with equivalent research experience considered
- Strong foundation in deep learning with hands-on experience training and debugging large models
- Solid software engineering skills comfortable writing production-quality research code
- Experience with video/generative models, VLMs or multimodal architectures, robot learning, simulation environments like MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, Habitat, or SLAM/navigation
- Track record of independent research; publications a plus but not required
- Comfortable working in fast-moving, resource-constrained startup research environment
- hiring process
- Structured interview covering domain knowledge and coding, with mid-internship check-in and end-of-internship evaluation.
Lab profile
About Rhoda AI
Building generalist intelligent robots via full-stack hardware and foundation world models.
What they build
- Generalist intelligent robots
- Foundation world models for robot control
Known for
- Full-stack ownership from hardware to AI
- Generalist robots for complex real-world environments
- End-to-end system design and cutting-edge research
Key facts
- Raised over $450M
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