- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle · Robot AI and Software
- Location
- SunnyvaleCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Artificial Intelligence
- Posted
- Feb 12, 2026
- Salary
- $65 an hour
Research Intern - World-Action Foundation Model, Robotics
Job description
Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company’s solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.;
Job responsibilities
- Conduct research on pretraining world-action foundation model with various world modalities including vision and physics associated with ego actions, serving the purpose for both robot action and simulation world…
- Diving into relevant topics such as vision-physics modality association, feed-forward Gaussian splatting, world foundation model, human data incorporation, language modality, and spatial reasoning, deformable object…
- Work closely with the Research Scientists and Engineers on high quality research publications for submission to top-tier conferences
Job requirements
- Strong research background and skills on relevant topics, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively on projects
- Current PhD (or MSc) studies in machine learning, computer vision and graphics, robotics
- Passion for next-generation, scalable autonomy and robotics
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