CareerPlan

Robotics Engineering Intern

Sunnyvale, CA, usInternship2026-10-28 → 2026-11-10

Core

Develop sim-to-real-to-sim platforms for the Intuitive surgical robot system, enabling rapid prototyping and de-risking of autonomous controller architectures.

Role type

Robotics Engineering Intern

Builds

Simulation environments and virtual models of the surgical field for autonomous controller development.

Domain

Medical Robotics / Surgical Automation

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Control system design, Embedded C++, Simulation environment development, Video-based 3D reconstruction, Autonomous control architectures

Preferred skills

MATLAB, Python, MuJoCo, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Sim-to-real transfer methods

Responsibilities

Implement control architectures in high-level and low-level targets, Test controller performance in simulation and on hardware, Create simulation environments with rigid-body dynamics and realistic rendering, Synthesize simulated environments from video data, Execute closed-loop round-trip tests between simulation and reality