Machine Learning Intern, Humanoid Loco-Manipulation - 2026

Job Description:

The NVIDIA Isaac Loco-Manipulation team is seeking exceptional machine learning Interns to join our world-class robotics initiatives. As an intern, you'll work alongside industry-leading experts, gaining hands-on experience and contributing to the future of humanoid loco-manipulation. We're looking for strategic, ambitious, and creative individuals who are passionate about pushing the boundaries of robotics.

What You'll Be Doing:
* Collaborate with researchers and engineers to define and execute projects focused on humanoid loco-manipulation and mobile manipulation.
* Contribute to GR00T and Cosmos foundation models.
* Support the development of reference workflows in Isaac Lab and Newton.
* Advance technologies for robot learning and synthetic data generation using human video datasets.
* Design, implement, and deploy novel algorithms for humanoid robot locomotion and manipulation in both simulated and real-world environments.
* Integrate your work with NVIDIA's advanced robotics platforms.
* Transfer your innovations into products, with deliverables including prototypes, patents, and/or publications in top conferences and journals.

What we need to see:
* Currently enrolled in a PhD or Master's program in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field, and available for the duration of the internship.
* Strong programming skills in Python and C++; familiarity with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow) and physics simulation tools (Isaac Sim/Lab, MuJoCo).
* Demonstrated research or internship experience, with publications in top conferences.
* Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
* Experience with large-scale model training on GPU clusters is a plus.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:
* Foundation models for robotics and 3D perception.
* Learning from human video demonstrations; Human-object reconstruction.
* Humanoid loco-manipulation: whole-body control, dexterous and bimanual manipulation, locomotion.
* Robotics simulation, sim-to-real and real-to-sim transfer.
* Robot learning and reasoning, including imitation and reinforcement learning:
Vision-language-action (VLA) models.
Synthetic data generation for robotics research