Autonomy Internship

ANYbotics is a fast-growing tech company dedicated to shaping the future of mobile robotics across multiple industries. Join our highly talented and motivated team of more than 190 people and work on cutting-edge robot technology. We are open to internships all year round and post regularly.

We’re always looking for passionate, curious, and motivated interns to join our mission.

This is your chance to collaborate with world-class experts, gain real-world experience, and make meaningful contributions in a fast-paced, interdisciplinary environment.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Navigation intern to join our Navigation team and contribute to advancing ANYmal's mobility capabilities. Utilizing the latest reinforcement learning techniques and simulation tools, we define, train, and integrate ML models into ANYmal to safely and robustly navigate challenging industrial environments. 

Your role extends to designing and implementing essential processes, pipelines, and tools for all stages of the RL lifecycle, ensuring seamless training, evaluation, and deployment of our learning-based controllers. This internship provides a profound and impactful opportunity to work at the forefront of machine learning in robotics, playing a significant role in shaping ANYmal's autonomous capabilities and contributing to real-world applications. 

You will work closely with Robotics experts who will provide you with guidance and mentorship. The preferred starting date is March, and the full-time paid internship lasts six months.

Market & Our Technology

ANYbotics transforms industrial plants in the energy, process, and utility sector by introducing robotics to a wide range of novel applications that so far were beyond reach. Our customers are large asset operators and industrial service providers pioneering the use of robotics technology for inspection and maintenance. Our mobile robot ANYmal uses legs for extreme mobility in complex environments, camera- and LIDAR-based sensing for full autonomy and obstacle avoidance, and AI for high-quality and consistent inspection results. We develop numerous customized hardware systems, including the entire robotic platform, actuators, sensors, inspection payloads, charging systems, and all related ANYbotics mechanical hardware.

• Robustify ANYmal’s local obstacle avoidance capabilities using state-of-the-art RL methods
• Investigate various neural network architectures and conduct comparative performance analyses
• Develop and expand tools for explainable artificial intelligence
• Collaborate with Navigation experts on improving the reliability and scalability of ANYmal’s navigation stack

Internship Details:

Start date: any time of the year and always on the 1st of the month

Duration: 6 months 

Workload: 100% (Full time, Onsite)

Who can apply:

EU applicants for internships

The internship can be voluntary

A work permit is not required but the candidate needs a residence permit

Must be enrolled in a University

Non-EU applicants for internships:

Internship must be mandatory (supported by a letter from a university)

A work permit is required

Must reside in CH

Interested? Submit your application

We will contact you if your skills and experience are a good fit for the team and the role. Please note due to the high load of applications we will only contact those that are relevant. Thank you for your understanding.

What We Offer:

- Hands-on experience working on advanced locomotion software.

- Mentorship from industry experts.

- Opportunities to contribute to innovative projects.

- A dynamic and collaborative work environment.

- Potential for future full-time opportunities.

We offer you a very exciting and dynamic work environment, the opportunity to become part of a fast-growing company and an ambitious team that is on a mission to change the industrial inspection market, a chance to leverage your experience and bring in your own ideas, a fair market salary, an attractive and fun environment in the city of Zurich.