Engineering Intern

About the Company

Verne Robotics is building intelligent robotic arms that can learn new skills in hours, not months. Backed by Y Combinator and top-tier Silicon Valley investors, we’re turning “physical AI” into reality — helping industries facing acute labor shortages automate back-of-house tasks.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement manipulation algorithms on real and simulated robot platforms
• Run experiments on physical robot arms and improve tele-operation and control systems
• Work closely with the founding team on projects spanning perception, control, and systems integration
• Contribute to infrastructure for testing, visualization, and reproducibility of experiments
• Occasionally perform hardware tasks such as assembling robots and swapping sensors

Requirements

• Current BS, MS or PhD student in Robotics, Computer Science, AI, or a related field
• Hands-on experience with robotic systems (e.g., Franka, UR, Kinova) or simulators (e.g., PyBullet, Mujoco)
• Familiarity with modern policy learning techniques (e.g., imitation learning, reinforcement learning, diffusion policies)
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience in PyTorch

Benefits

• Free meals vouchers
• Hardware access
• Mentorship from experienced founders
• Opportunity to convert to full-time