Atlas Reinforcement Learning Intern

- Intern

Waltham, MA

Machinery Manufacturing

About the position

Are you passionate about using machine learning to drive robot behavior? As an Atlas Reinforcement Learning Intern, you will join a world-class team of engineers and scientists focused on creating robust perception-driven manipulation policies for Atlas. You'll take on a research project advised by one of our senior research scientists that will allow you to deliver results onto hardware.

Responsibilities

• Participating in project ideation
• Implementing your ideas in our existing codebase
• Working with the Atlas team to deploy your policies on hardware
• Measuring progress using manipulation benchmarks
• Creatively applying machine learning to solve real-world bimanual manipulation problems
• Writing high-quality (documented, tested, maintainable) Python and C++ code
• Leading design reviews and collaborating closely with members of the Atlas software team
• Deploying and debugging your code on Atlas, Spot and other BD robots

Requirements

• Actively pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field
• Prior experience training and deploying learned models to create complex behaviors in robots or simulated characters
• Experience with common ML tools, architectures, and workflow
• Strong analytical and debug skills

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with and contributing to large codebases
• Experience working with robot hardware