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Robotics Simulation & Synthetic Data Intern

Mountain View, CA💼 Internship🗓 2026-09-20 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build end-to-end synthetic data generation pipelines for robot foundation models using NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Cosmos Transfer to create photorealistic training datasets from human demonstrations.

Role type

Robotics Simulation & Synthetic Data Intern

Builds

Large-scale synthetic trajectory and image datasets for VLA (Vision-Language-Action) model training

Domain

Robotics / Physical AI / Embodied AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, Linux/Docker, GPU workloads (CUDA), physics simulation (NVIDIA Isaac Sim/Lab, MuJoCo, PyBullet, Gazebo), robot learning fundamentals (imitation learning, behavior cloning, RL), USD/URDF, ROS/ROS2

Preferred skills

NVIDIA Omniverse, Replicator, VLA architectures (RT-2, Octo, π0, GR00T N1), domain randomization, neural rendering (NeRF, Gaussian Splatting)

Technologies

NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, GR00T-Mimic, Cosmos Transfer, USD, URDF, ROS/ROS2, Open X-Embodiment, LeRobot, ACT, Diffusion Policy

Responsibilities

Configure simulation environments with scene composition, physics parameters, and domain randomization; apply world-foundation-model augmentation for photorealistic rendering; design and run data quality experiments; curate and version datasets; benchmark synthetic vs. real data performance; document pipelines for team reproduction

Seniority

Intern

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