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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.\nWe'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.\nThis 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.\nAbout the Role & Team\nTeaching 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.\nWhat You'll Do\nTrain and iterate on diffusion flow matching, and related behavior policies using real fleet demonstration data and simulated rollouts\n\nRun architecture, conditioning, and hyperparameter explorations, and turn the results into clear findings the team can build on\n\nBuild and improve evaluation pipelines that score behavior models on task success, smoothness, safety margins, and operator-likeness\n\nInvestigate failure modes - distribution shift, mode collapse, out-of-distribution scenes and propose fixes\n\nWork with the simulation and eval teams to make sure offline metrics actually predict on-machine performance\n\nContribute to the shared training codebase with clean, reviewed, reproducible work\n\nShare results regularly with the behavior, controls, and autonomy teams\n\nWhat We're Looking For\nRequired\nCurrently pursuing a BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, robotics, machine learning, or a related field or bringing equivalent research or industry experience\n\nStrong Python and hands-on experience training models in PyTorch (or equivalent)\n\nWorking understanding of generative modeling diffusion models, flow matching, VAEs, or similar and of imitation learning or behavior cloning\n\nExperience running and interpreting real training experiments: you know how to tell a real improvement from noise\n\nClear communication, you can explain what you tried, what happened, and what you'd do next\n\nPreferred\nPublished work or substantial project experience in diffusion, flow matching, robot learning, or imitation learning\n\nExperience training and building Vision Language Action (VLA) models\n\nExperience training Reinforcement Learning (RL) policies for robot manipulation\n\nExperience evaluating policies in simulation and reasoning about the sim-to-real gap\n\nFamiliarity with large-scale training infrastructure and experiment tracking tooling\n\nExposure to robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other physical-world control problems\n\nInterest in construction, earthwork, or heavy equipment - no prior experience required\n\nAbout This Internship\nThis 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.\"\nBedrock Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer\nWe’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.\nReasonable Accommodations\nWe want our hiring process to be accessible to everyone. 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