Research Intern - World-Action Foundation Model, Robotics

What the role actually is

Applied Intuition is hiring research interns for its AI research group, including work on world-action foundation models for robotics. The internship sits in the same physical AI research group working across autonomous driving and robotic generalist systems.

For students aiming at robot learning, this is a direct research opening rather than a generic software internship.

What you would work on

• Support research on world-action models for robots and autonomy
• Run experiments that test how models connect perception, world state, and action
• Work with researchers and engineers on physical AI systems
• Help build or evaluate research prototypes in a production-adjacent environment

What they are asking for

• Graduate-level or equivalent research exposure in ML, robotics, embodied AI, or foundation models
• Ability to implement experiments and communicate research results
• Interest in physical AI, autonomous systems, and robotic generalization
• Comfort working from the Sunnyvale office during the internship

Why this one is worth a look

Good robotics internships are often buried under generic ML titles. This one is explicit about world-action models and robotics, which makes it a useful early-career signal for people trying to move toward embodied AI research.