WorldEngine AI
Research Intern, Robotics Data & Real-to-Sim
SF Bay Area · On-site · Internship · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Currently pursuing a degree in computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on research experience.
About the job
Investigates ways to convert real-world observations and robot interactions into high-quality datasets and simulation-ready environments, and evaluates their impact on robot learning.
What you'll do
- Develop real-to-sim workflows and tools to process, align, and validate robotics data.
- Design experiments and benchmarks to assess reconstruction quality and its effect on robot learning and task performance.
- Turn research prototypes into reproducible pipelines, datasets, and evaluation tools; document findings and contribute to reports or publications.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing a degree in computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on research experience.
- Strong Python programming skills and experience implementing and testing machine learning or computer vision methods.
- Foundation in 3D geometry, computer vision, or robot learning, and ability to build working prototypes.
- Comfort with imperfect real-world data, pipeline debugging, and designing controlled experiments.
Nice to have
- Research or project experience in 3D reconstruction, neural rendering, or scene understanding.
- Experience with robotics simulators, scene and asset generation, or training or evaluating robot policies.
Tools
Python
AI focus
Researches real-to-sim data and environments and measures their effects on robot learning and evaluation.
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