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PhD Research Intern, Learning Embodied Skills from Human Data - 2027

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Internship💰 $38–$38🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop AI systems to capture, understand, and reproduce complex human motion and interaction skills across physical humanoid robots and digital animated characters.

Role type

PhD Research Intern, Embodied AI & Robotics

Builds

AI systems for motion reconstruction, generation, retargeting, and robot control

Domain

Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Graphics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

PyTorch, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, large-scale ML systems, compute infrastructure, rapid prototyping, coding agents

Preferred skills

human motion modeling, human-object interaction, character animation, robot learning, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, cross-embodiment motion tracking, generative modeling, video understanding, differentiable physics simulation

Responsibilities

Innovate and implement novel AI algorithms for motion and interaction skills; Develop robust training and inference pipelines; Build methods to transfer human skills to humanoid robots; Publish research findings at leading conferences; Partner with product teams for technology transfer

Seniority

PhD Candidate, Research Intern

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