Summer 2023: Reinforcement Learning Intern @ iRobot

Introduction

iRobot Corporation, with a mission of empowering people to do more is at the forefront of the development of robotics and artificial intelligence technologies.

iRobot has become one of the world’s preeminent specialist designers and builders of consumer robots. We invest in the development and growth of its people, in a culture of empowerment, innovation and fun.

Come work with some of the most talented and influential people in the robotics field utilizing cutting edge technologies, in an exciting, fast-growing industry!

Our team’s mission is to lead the intelligence revolution for robots, leveraging the power of Machine Learning. Join our RL team to help us make our robots smarter! If you have a passion for RL, NLP, robots, and working on data at scale, let’s talk.

This internship will be full-time (40 hrs) from May to August of 2023.

Responsibilities:

Use state-of-the-art Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to improve our robots’ navigation, planning and cleaning performance.
Work closely with our researchers and engineers to design and scale our robot fleetlearning pipeline.

Qualifications:

Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning or related field. Graduate (Masters Degree) students with prior experience in the field considered.
In-depth knowledge of state-of-the-art methods in many of the following areas:
Offline Reinforcement Learning
Multi-armed and Contextual Bandits
Large Language or Vision-Language Models like GPT-3 and CLIP
NLP Pretraining and Tuning
Knowledge Graphs
Experience with PyTorch or JAX