Robotics Engineering Intern

Robotics Engineering Intern

Location: San Francisco, CA (full time, in-person)

Company Overview

Our mission is to accelerate the construction of critical infrastructure on Earth while pioneering technologies to enable humanity to build beyond Earth. Starting with Cosmic-1 – a system that installs solar panels 10x faster than today’s methods, helping us transition to a clean energy future and laying the groundwork for the future of autonomous construction.

The Role

As a Robotics Engineering Intern, you will join the team as a full-fledged contributor: designing, building, and shipping core technologies that operate on live customer projects in the field. You’ll work with us to tackle meaningful, challenging problems across hardware, software, and system integration.

This is a rare opportunity to:

• Work on hard, meaningful problems that impact the future of infrastructure and energy.

• Collaborate with a world-class team from NASA, SpaceX, Google, Built Robotics, and others.

• Rapidly grow, learn, and lead within a quickly scaling company.

Responsibilities

• Contribute directly to the development of mission-critical robotic systems used in active customer deployments

• Participate in rigorous testing, validation, and documentation to ensure safety and reliability

• Collaborate closely across hardware and software teams to diagnose and resolve system-level issues

• Support field testing, data collection, and on-site system bring-up

• Communicate progress clearly and take ownership of deliverables

Hardware-focused

• Design and prototype mechanical, electrical, or mechatronic components for next-generation autonomous construction systems

• Execute hardware-software integration, subsystem bring-up, and reliability testing

• Build test rigs, perform hands-on debugging, and support iteration on structures, sensor, actuator, and compute subsystems

Software-focused

• Develop across the full robotics software stack—from low-level drivers to high-level autonomy and application logic

• Contribute to perception, navigation, planning, machine learning, controls, and real-time system components

• Push production code to live robots operating in the field and support iterative testing in simulation and real-world environments

Requirements

• Strong fundamentals in engineering, robotics, algorithms, or systems development

• Demonstrated proficiency in key technical skills:

  • Software: C++, Python, Linux, algorithms, and systems programming

  • Hardware: mechanical/electrical design, CAD, prototyping, test and measurement, and mechatronics

• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments and deliver high-quality work under tight timelines

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

• Passion for building autonomous systems that operate in the field

Bonus

• Experience in engineering clubs or project teams such as: robotics teams, Formula SAE, rocketry or autonomous drone/vehicle teams

• Participation in robotics, ML, or hardware research projects

• Personal robotics or engineering projects (e.g., GitHub, competitions, custom builds)

• Familiarity with ROS 2, simulation tools, or robotics frameworks

• Previous internship experience