Computer Vision & Robotics Intern

About this role

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join an early-stage industrial automation startup's engineering team to help develop computer vision systems for factory quality inspection. The system uses first-person cameras to understand manual assembly, recognize process steps, and detect deviations, with the longer-term goal of supporting robotic automation.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Build and improve computer vision pipelines for detection, classification, tracking, and temporal understanding.

- Test first-person perception in challenging conditions, including camera motion, occlusion, motion blur, and changing lighting.

- Work with synthetic and real-world data to identify failure cases and improve model performance.

- Train, evaluate, and debug vision models using PyTorch.

- Explore geometric vision, calibration, localization, pose estimation, and 3D perception.

- Optimize models for low-latency inference and edge deployment.

- Build evaluation tools and support deployments to assess performance in real factory environments.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- Currently studying computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field.

- Hands-on experience in computer vision, machine learning, or robotics, and comfort working with Python.

- Interest in computer vision and physical AI, with the ability to learn quickly, debug problems, build, and take ownership.

- Experience with PyTorch, OpenCV, object detection, tracking, synthetic data, SLAM or VIO, 3D vision, CUDA or TensorRT, ROS2, or NVIDIA Jetson is helpful.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Visa sponsorship is available. Relocation from Germany is supported.

LOCATION

On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.