Research Intern - World-Action Foundation Model Robotics

Applied Intuition is a physical-AI company that provides software platforms for developing, validating, deploying, and operating intelligent vehicles and machines.

Sunnyvale, United States
About Applied Intuition

Founded in 2017, Applied Intuition builds physical-AI tooling and infrastructure, a Vehicle OS, and a Self-Driving System for automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, agriculture, and robotics applications.

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About the Role

You will research world-action foundation models across vision, physics, and ego actions for robotic action and simulation-world generation. You will explore vision-physics association, Gaussian splatting, human data, language, spatial reasoning, deformable objects, and simulation, then collaborate on publications.

Requirements

  • Strong research background in relevant topics
  • Current PhD or MSc studies in machine learning, computer vision and graphics, or robotics
  • 1+ year of research experience in autonomy, self-driving, or a related field
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively

Responsibilities

  • Research world-action foundation models for robot action and simulation-world generation
  • Study vision-physics modality association, Gaussian splatting, human data, language, and spatial reasoning
  • Research deformable-object modeling and simulation
  • Collaborate on research publications for top-tier conferences