Valstad
Robotics Software Intern, Manipulation & Simulation
Austin · On-site · Internship · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Experience
- No number of years specified.
- Education
- Currently pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in robotics, computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Implements and validates a scoped robotics-software capability for manipulation, motion planning, simulation, verification, or hardware debugging, with testing on recorded data and, when appropriate, real robots.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, test, and document a defined robotics-software project.
- Analyze robot logs and behavior to diagnose planning or execution issues; build automated tests for normal and failure scenarios.
- Validate and demonstrate the completed capability using simulation, recorded data, or supervised access to real robotic hardware.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in robotics, computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related field.
- Strong programming fundamentals and experience with Python, rust, or both.
- Coursework or practical experience in linear algebra, 3D geometry, kinematics, dynamics, controls, or motion planning; experience completing a meaningful robotics, software, or research project.
- Available to work full-time on-site in Austin for the internship.
Nice to have
- Strong rust experience.
- Experience with ROS or ROS 2, robotics frameworks, manipulators, simulation or verification tools, or industrial robotics hardware.
Pay
$34 to $42 per hour (USD; hourly pay range)
Tools
rust, Python, ROS, ROS 2, MoveIt, Tesseract, OMPL, Drake
AI focus
The role supports robotics software for an AI-driven manufacturing platform; no specific AI development tasks are stated.
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