# Robot Learning Intern

**Company:** [Origin](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/i6CRnMYNgc1yzpDvadsnAg.md)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Workplace:** on site
**Department:** Computer Visions & AI

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## Description

### About Origin

Origin is building physical AI for the built world. Our robots autonomously finish building interiors at production quality. OG-1 is deployed on live NYC commercial construction sites today. Backed by Accel.

Our system runs a Multi Agent Action Expert architecture: classical precision algorithms orchestrated alongside learned policies. The job is systematically expanding the learned components while keeping the system production-safe.

### The Role

You own the full lifecycle of learned components on OG-1: from data collection and model training through edge deployment on Jetson AGX Orin. Every research project will have a deployment milestone. This is not a lab position.

### What You Will Do

-   Train and deploy VLA models for contact-rich manipulation using our imitation learning infrastructure.
-   Build the data flywheel: teleoperation pipelines (GELLO, SpaceMouse, VR), DAgger-style online correction, demonstration curation.
-   Research and prototype world models for surface state prediction, spray dynamics, and anomaly detection.
-   Design offline evaluation metrics that predict real-world finishing quality before deployment.
-   Optimize models for edge: TensorRT compilation, latency profiling, memory budgeting on dual Jetson AGX Orin.
-   Hands-on experience with **world models**, including building or working with predictive or generative environment models (e.g., latent dynamics, video prediction, or planning-oriented models)
-   Design the interface where learned policies propose actions and deterministic safety layers enforce constraints.  
    

### Requirements

-   BS/MS/PhD in CS, Robotics, ML, or equivalent experience shipping learned systems on physical robots.
-   Strong Python and PyTorch; comfort modifying research codebases (you'll work directly with open-source VLA implementations).
-   Experience in at least two of: imitation learning, RL, vision-language models, robot learning from demonstration, sim-to-real.
-   Track record deploying ML on real hardware: not just training to convergence, but debugging why the policy fails on the actual robot.
-   Working knowledge of ROS2 or equivalent robotics middleware.
-   Experience working with Simulation Systems like Isaac Sim.
-   GPU profiling and optimization (TensorRT, ONNX, CUDA); you understand why 200ms policy latency kills contact control.  
      
    

### Strong Plus

-   Hands-on with VLA architectures (π0/π0.5, OpenVLA, RT-2, Octo) or foundation model fine-tuning for robotics.
-   Teleoperation data collection and DAgger/HG-DAgger pipelines.
-   World model architectures (DreamerV3, V-JEPA, latent dynamics models).
-   Construction, manufacturing, or contact-rich industrial domains.
-   Publications at CoRL, RSS, ICRA, NeurIPS: valued but equivalent shipped work counts.

**Note** - We’re ideally looking for candidates with 0-1 years of hands-on experience in robotics, machine learning, or applied AI systems.