2027 Internship Behavior ML Engineer, Learned Manipulation Policies
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 27, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 2, 2026. Bedrock Robotics scores A on the Alion truth index.
Join the team bringing advanced autonomy to the built world
At Bedrock, we're moving AI out of the lab and into the real world. Our team includes veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition, and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. Today, we're deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction equipment across the country, improving safety on job sites and accelerating schedules on critical infrastructure projects.
We're not here debating the future of AI. We're deploying it in the real world. In just two years, we've raised $350M and achieved the first fully autonomous excavator deployments in construction.
This is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots. You'll work alongside construction veterans and world-class engineers to solve physical-world problems that simulations can't touch. If you're ready to do meaningful work on hard problems, we'd love to have you join us.
About the Role & Team
Teaching a 40-ton excavator to move like an expert operator is a very different problem from teaching a car to stay in its lane. The motions are multimodal, there are many good ways to swing, dig, and dump and the consequences of getting them wrong are measured in cubic yards and bent steel. Bedrock's Behavior ML team builds the learned policies that decide what our machines actually do, and diffusion policies are a central bet: models that can represent the full distribution of expert behavior instead of averaging it into mush. As our Behavior ML intern, you'll help train those policies and build the evaluation that tells us whether they're genuinely better working alongside two hosts who sit on both the training and evaluation sides of the problem.
What You'll Do
Train and iterate on diffusion flow matching, and related behavior policies using real fleet demonstration data and simulated rollouts
Run architecture, conditioning, and hyperparameter explorations, and turn the results into clear findings the team can build on
Build and improve evaluation pipelines that score behavior models on task success, smoothness, safety margins, and operator-likeness
Investigate failure modes - distribution shift, mode collapse, out-of-distribution scenes and propose fixes
Work with the simulation and eval teams to make sure offline metrics actually predict on-machine performance
Contribute to the shared training codebase with clean, reviewed, reproducible work
Share results regularly with the behavior, controls, and autonomy teams
What We're Looking For
Required
Currently pursuing a BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, robotics, machine learning, or a related field or bringing equivalent research or industry experience
Strong Python and hands-on experience training models in PyTorch (or equivalent)
Working understanding of generative modeling diffusion models, flow matching, VAEs, or similar and of imitation learning or behavior cloning
Experience running and interpreting real training experiments: you know how to tell a real improvement from noise
Clear communication, you can explain what you tried, what happened, and what you'd do next
Preferred
Published work or substantial project experience in diffusion, flow matching, robot learning, or imitation learning
Experience training and building Vision Language Action (VLA) models
Experience training Reinforcement Learning (RL) policies for robot manipulation
Experience evaluating policies in simulation and reasoning about the sim-to-real gap
Familiarity with large-scale training infrastructure and experiment tracking tooling
Exposure to robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other physical-world control problems
Interest in construction, earthwork, or heavy equipment - no prior experience required
About This Internship
This is a fixed-term, project-based internship designed strictly for students (undergraduate or graduate) seeking resume-building experience, hands-on skill development, or industry exposure rather than a direct career launchpad. Candidates will own discrete, short-term projects that can be fully completed within the internship timeframe. Please note that while exceptional interns may occasionally be considered if business needs align, opportunities for full-time conversion are highly limited."
Bedrock Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.
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