Controls/Robotics Intern

About the Company

Backed by leading climate and American dynamism investors, Terranova builds intelligent robotic systems to terraform the Earth itself - lifting land, restoring wetlands, and protecting critical infrastructure from floods and sea-level rise.

Responsibilities

• Develop and tune controllers (PID, MPC, optimal/robust control) for dynamic, nonlinear systems
• Build and validate physical models for simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and autonomy
• Train and deploy ML models for perception, planning, or adaptive control (supervised or RL)
• Integrate algorithms with firmware and cloud teams, ensuring real-time safety and stability
• Profile, optimize, and verify performance under latency, jitter, and compute constraints

Requirements

• Working towards a bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Robotics or related field
• U.S. permanent residency required
• Comfortable with the pace and intensity of early-stage startup life

Preferred Qualifications

• Hobby/personal projects and evidence of being a maker
• LiDAR integration and use
• Python/C++ with PyTorch/JAX
• MPC/OSQP/CasADi
• EKF/UKF/factor graphs
• System ID, RL (PPO/SAC) with safety shields
• ROS2, ONNX/TensorRT
• Latency and jitter profiling
• PCB and embedded systems design skills