Internship - Reinforcement Learning for Navigation

We’re always looking for passionate, curious, and motivated interns to join the Advanced Technology team. We explore emerging technologies and transform them into practical innovations that shape the future of robotics at ANYbotics. We bridge cutting-edge research with real-world industrial applications by rapidly validating new ideas, building prototypes, and transferring successful technologies into our products. Working closely with leading universities, startups, and internal engineering teams, we tackle challenging problems in robotics, AI, computer vision, and autonomous systems to create the next generation of industrial inspection robots.

The Opportunity
We are looking for a Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Navigation intern to join our Advanced Technology 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 includes evaluating and fine tuning state of the art RL-based navigation & locomotion policies in simulation and on real quadruped robots. 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 and research partners who will provide you with guidance and mentorship. The preferred starting date is September 2026, and the full-time paid internship lasts six months.

Your Contributions
Project Support: Work closely with our engineers and researchers on active projects across the entire software stack, from application software to autonomy stack and low-level software. Algorithm Implementation: Design, implement, test, and validate new algorithms and features in core software areas. Testing & Infrastructure: Contribute to the continuous improvement of our testing infrastructure, simulation environments, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure the robustness and reliability of the ANYmal platform Code Development & Testing: Write clean, efficient, and well-documented C++ and Python code for real-time operation on the robot. Contribute to our robust testing and simulation infrastructure

Your Profile
Education: Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD program in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related technical field. Foundational Knowledge: Solid academic knowledge and proven ability in one or more areas relevant to mobile robotics, such as Control Theory, Machine Learning, Computer Vision. Programming Skills: Strong proficiency in Python and/or C++ (Modern C++ is highly valued). Software Development Skills: Experience with Git, Docker, and AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot). Collaboration: Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in our highly interdisciplinary, English-speaking environment. Attitude: A hands-on, proactive, and analytical attitude towards complex problem-solving and eagerness to learn rapidly.

Bonus points, a few extra things that would make us especially excited about your application
You have trained AI models on GPUs and have explored CUDA or other GPU-accelerated computing frameworks. You spend your weekends automating your workflows with Agentic AI. You know and worked with Robotics Middleware (ROS/ROS 2).

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.
We are only able to consider applications from Schengen-Area citizens (or any student enrolled at ETH and EPFL who require compulsory internship). For residents outside of Switzerland, you will have to find your own accommodation in order to apply for the L or B work permit.

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.