Controls Robotics Intern Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Nice to Haves Experience with robotic systems and robotics principles, including kinematics, dynamics, motion planning, and control theory.

As a Robotics Engineer Intern, you'll develop and integrate autonomous systems across our fleet and at customer deployment sites — building

About the Role We’re looking for a Robotics Control Systems Engineer to take on a foundational role within our robotics team.

Own the realtime edge: Video, robot state, and control at latency budgets tight enough that teleoperation feels direct, plus the

our intuitive control systems - Either lead robot movements with your arms (the robot mirrors your actions) or guide robots using specialized controllers

The Role We’re looking for Robot Operators who are passionate about robotics.

Hands-on experience across the robotics stack: motion planning, controls, perception, state estimation, runtime software, end-of-arm tooling, basic hardware

As a Controls Engineer, you will design and implement the algorithms that make PI’s robots behave predictably, smoothly, and safely under varied and uncertain

Experience with real-world robotics, including robot control, perception, teleoperation, or deployment.

You will work closely with mechanical, firmware, software, controls, and research teams to evaluate new ideas, develop novel hardware, and integrate it into robotic

The team spans Linux systems engineering, camera and sensor pipelines, robot actuator controllers, networking, real-time IO, and performance tooling.

Develop innovative robot control interfaces suited to a variety of morphologies, environments, and tasks.

Proficiency in robotics fundamentals, including kinematics, dynamics, control theory, and state estimation.

Solid understanding of robotics fundamentals such as kinematics, dynamics, motion planning, control, or state estimation.

The Team The Robotics Technician works closely with PI’s fleet operations and engineering teams, to maintain the robotic platforms