Research Intern

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Full-Time Research Intern, Fujitsu Research of America (FRA)

Location: Fujitsu Pittsburgh Office

Fujitsu Research of America (FRA) conducts fundamental research in cutting-edge areas including Quantum Computing, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Human-Computer Interaction. FRA is seeking a research intern to work on Robotics and Computer Vision , with a focus on autonomous aerial and/or ground robots.

Required Qualifications

• PhD Candidate specializing in Robotics and/or Computer Vision
• Strong foundation in robot planning and/or controls
• Expertise in 3D computer vision for autonomous robots (visual odometry/VIO, SLAM, 6-DoF localization and tracking)

Preferred Qualifications

• Conference publications in ICRA/IROS/CVPR or similar venues
• Hands-on experience with quadrotors and/or mobile ground robots, and familiarity with simulation environments (e.g., Gazebo, Isaac Sim, AirSim)
• Experience with 3D scene representations and novel view synthesis (e.g., 3D Gaussian Splatting, NeRF/implicit representations) for mapping, localization, or simulation
• Experience with robotics software stacks (ROS/ROS2), and/or onboard sensing (stereo/depth/LiDAR/IMU)
Experience with Vision Language Action (VLA) models and/or Reinforcement Learning

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