Spring 2027 Robot Learning R&D Co-op
berkshiregrey Open · verified Oct 22, 2026 At a glance
Junior AI Research role at berkshiregrey. Bedford · temporary.
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What you'll do
- Build software that brings learned manipulation capabilities into robot systems and supports their deployment and evaluation
- Adapt existing machine-learning models for robot learning and visual understanding of scenes
- Improve the application used to gather data for robot-learning work
- Create tools to inspect and assess robot-run data, including sensor readings, logs, labels and failures
- Connect new grippers and hardware with perception, planning and robot-control software
What you bring
- You are pursuing a master's or doctoral degree in robotics, machine learning, computer science or a closely related area
- You have strong Python development skills and experience building robotics software with Linux and ROS
- You have used machine-learning models with systems that operate in the physical world
Who this fits
This co-op suits someone seeking hands-on robotics research and development across software, machine learning and hardware integration. You’ll work on-site in Bedford, Massachusetts, for a flexible period of roughly January through June 2027.
From the employer
Spring 2027 Robot Learning R&D Co-op
As part of the Research & Advanced Development group, you will help develop and integrate new approaches to solving a variety of challenging manipulation problems for real-world robotics systems, allowing them to understand and interact with their environment in unprecedented ways. This position offers a unique opportunity to work at the cutting edge of robotics applied to real-world challenges. Your work will span the full range of this robotics stack, from robot drivers to the multi-robot orchestration system running in Berkshire Grey’s in-house robot proving ground.
This role will be onsite at the Bedford, MA office. This position will run from approximately January to June 2027 (dates flexible).
Functions:
- Build software infrastructure to integrate, deploy, and evaluate learning-based manipulation capabilities
- Contribute to the training and adaptation of existing machine learning architectures for robot learning and visual scene understanding
- Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of Berkshire Grey’s robot learning data collection application
- Build tools to process, validate, visualize, and evaluate data from on-robot policy execution, including system logs, sensor data, annotations, and failure cases
- Integrate novel grippers and other hardware into existing perception, planning, and robot-control systems
- Leverage production data and our internal development systems to implement and evaluate your solutions
Qualifications
- Currently pursuing an advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a closely related field
- Strong software development expertise in Python; C++ is a plus
- Experience with modern machine learning methods such as imitation learning, reinforcement learning, generative models, vision transformers, or related methods
- Experience applying ML models to systems that interact with the physical world
- Experience developing robotics software using Linux (Ubuntu) and ROS
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