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Company Description
RoboService solves the "Last Mile" of humanoid robotics. While manufacturers provide the hardware and foundation models, these general-purpose "brains" are not yet ready for the specific, accurate tasks of a production line. We bridge that gap.
We don't build foundation models from scratch; we operationalize them. We take state-of-the-art VLA models and fine-tune them for reliability, speed, and precision in real-world manufacturing environments.
We are not a research lab; we are shipping code that moves atoms. Launched in July 2025 by repeat founders with successful exits, we are looking for engineers who want to take robots out of the lab and onto the factory floor.
Role Description
We are looking for an intern / working student who joins our Robotics Machine Learning Engineering team. You will bridge the gap between "remote controlled hardware" and "autonomous robots". We work with robotics manufacturers that provide great hardware and a model infrastructure, but are missing the software to fine-tune the models on a specific task. Your primary focus will be establishing training pipelines - from teleoperation data collection to fine-tuning VLA models and utilizing Reinforcement Learning (RL) to fine-tune complex manipulation tasks.
You won't be writing papers. You will be:
- Building data pipelines to capture and analyze training data
- Fine-tuning VLA models (open source and proprietary models from our partners)
- Managing the Data Pipeline and overseeing the Teleoperation activities. Manage large datasets required for fine-tuning models.
- Reinforcement Learning (RL): Apply RL techniques to fine-tune robot actions, ensuring robust performance when the robot works on the production line.
- Utilize high-fidelity simulation environments (MuJoCo, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Omniverse) to train and test agents before deploying them to physical hardware. (Sim2Real)
Qualifications
- Education: Currently pursuing your Master’s degree or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
- Experience: Machine Learning, Deep learning, or embodied AI. Hands-On Robotics Experience.
- Core ML Skills: Strong proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX). Experience with Transformers and VLA architectures is highly desirable.
- Simulation: Proven experience with physics-based simulators, specifically NVIDIA Isaac Sim or similar (Gazebo, MuJoCo).
- Data Engineering: Ability to analyze and manage large datasets, automate data cleaning, and build training pipelines.
- Proficiency in English
What We Offer
- Path to Full-Time: After a successful internship, we aim to extend a full-time offer.
- Berlin based: We’re an in-person team and we work out of our office in downtown Berlin. If you're not in Berlin yet, be prepared to move here before the start of the job.
- Access to Cutting Edge Tech: Work daily on the latest software and hardware that will shape our future.
- Impact: Work in real projects with manufacturers to bring robots onto manufacturing floors.
- Startup Environment: We are a fast-moving startup with high growth ambitions.
- Team of Experts: We are a team of experts where every voice matters. Work with professionals that are leading their field.
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What this Tech internship in Berlin means for you — pay rules, social contributions, and what international students should check before applying.
Weekly hours
Internships have no 20-hour cap, but a voluntary internship longer than three months generally has to pay at least the German minimum wage. Mandatory internships in your study programme are exempt.
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Mandatory internships are largely exempt from social contributions. Voluntary internships are treated like regular employment once they run long enough, so contributions usually apply.
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