AI Manipulation Intern

ABOUT VINDYNAMICS

At VinDynamics, we design safe, affordable, and intelligent humanoid robots to assist in everyday life — robots for everyone. Backed by Vingroup, Vietnam’s leading technology conglomerate, we are on a mission to make advanced robotics accessible, reliable, and beneficial for billions of people worldwide. By combining cutting-edge AI, world-class engineering, and human-centered design, we aim to seamlessly integrate robots into daily life — enhancing safety, productivity, and happiness at home and beyond.

JOB SUMMARY

The successful candidate will be assigned a defined technical project spanning from data acquisition, model development, and deployment to the robotic platform. The intern will work alongside research engineers, hardware engineers, and will contribute codes to the department's production manipulation stack. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop object-centric and hand-centric perception for humanoid manipulation, including grasping, pick-and-place, insertion, and tool use.

• Build and maintain perception pipelines processing RGB-D, stereo, and point cloud data.

• Implement 6D object pose estimation, segmentation, and tracking that remains robust under clutter, partial and complete occlusion, motion blur, reflective and transparent surfaces, and variable illumination.

• Participate in demonstration data collection, and contribute to the design of collection protocols, task variations, and randomization strategies.

• Clean, annotate, curate, and develop tooling to identify defective episodes, mis-labelled frames, sensor dropouts, and coverage gaps prior to training.

• Build, fine-tune, and deploy vision-language-action models (VLAs), world-action models (WAMs), and reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms for manipulation.