San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$6k–$8k/mo
One Robot builds task-specific world models and an evaluation platform for robot manipulation policies. Training end-to-end policies for robots is vibes-based today. Teams collect data, train, deploy on a real robot, fin…
Skills: Python, PyTorch, Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Vision
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The intern will contribute to training world and evaluation models and run experiments on physical robot hardware. They will also build Python and PyTorch tooling to improve data engines and training pipelines to close the sim-to-real gap.
Candidates must be currently enrolled in a BS, MS, or PhD program in ML, robotics, or computer vision with strong Python and PyTorch skills. Hands-on experience training generative models, VLMs, or policies is required.
One Robot builds task-specific world models and an evaluation platform for robot manipulation policies.
Training end-to-end policies for robots is vibes-based today. Teams collect data, train, deploy on a real robot, find out what fails, collect more, retry. We replace the trial-and-error with rigorous validation that tells you where your policy will fail and what data to collect to fix it.
Robotics can't industrialize without an evaluation layer. We're building it.
We're based in San Francisco, backed by Accel, YC, several exited founders, and engineering leaders at leading AI companies. We're small and deliberately so — everyone owns a wide surface area and moves fast.
This internship is for people who want to work on real problems with real robots, not toy datasets. You'll embed directly with the technical team and contribute to active research across world models, policy training, and evaluation.
Contribute to training runs: Work alongside founding engineers on world model or eval model experiments end-to-end
Run real-robot evaluations: Collect demonstration data, run policies on physical hardware, and document failure modes
Build tooling: Write Python and PyTorch code that improves our data engine, training pipelines, or eval infrastructure
Close the sim-to-real gap: Run experiments that test how well simulation predicts real-robot behavior
Strong coding in Python and PyTorch
Currently enrolled in a BS, MS, or PhD program in ML, robotics, computer vision, or a related field
Hands-on experience training or fine-tuning a generative model, VLM, or policy (coursework or research counts)
Ability to work in-person in San Francisco
Experience with real robot hardware or simulation environments (Isaac, MuJoCo, etc.)
Prior research in manipulation, 3D vision, or model evaluation
World models for robots
We help robotics teams replace thousands of hours of manual data collection using world models to find where action policies fail, and generate targeted corrective synthetic trajectories.
Offices: San Francisco, California 94103, US
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We help robotics teams replace thousands of hours of manual data collection using world models to find where action policies fail, and generate targeted corrective synthetic trajectories.
Offices: San Francisco, California 94103, US
View all jobs at One Robot (YC W26)