# Machine Learning Research Intern (Reinforcement/Imitation Learning)

Your New Role and Team Sanctuary AI, a world leader in building dexterity-driven Physical AI for general purpose robots, is looking to hire a skilled and motivated intern to join our ML team and contribute to our team’s work in engineering and innovating unique robotic manipulation tasks. Reporting to the RL Lead, you will have the opportunity to tackle a variety of challenges related to the perception, planning, and motion systems for humanoid general-purpose robots. The best candidates for this role have excellent software development and machine learning skills as well as hands-on experience with robotics. In this role you’ll be a valued contributor and you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of the design, architecture, and implementation of the simulation platform and machine learning systems that power our general-purpose robots. We are flexible regarding both the internship start date and the duration of the term. Our Success Criteria Design, implement, and improve state-of-the-art Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Imitation Learning (IL) algorithms and test them in real-world settings Keep up to date with state-of-the-art RL/IL methodologies and robotics Identify, communi

- **Id**: 3886523
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sanctuary-ai-machine-learning-research-intern-reinforcementimitation-learning>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: intern
- **Employment type**: internship
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Vancouver, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T19:51:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T18:45:58Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 8
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2892
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotics AI, Humanoid Robots

## Company

- **Id**: 10798
- **Name**: Sanctuary AI
- **Domain**: sanctuary.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sanctuary>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Kula

## Technologies

- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Imitation Learning** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Physical AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **ROS2** — Optional: no
- **Transfer Learning** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 8

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T19:51:43Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 8
- **Expected fill days**: 63
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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