Robotics Systems Intern - Sensor Platform

Team: Sensor Platform

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Commitment: Intern

Workplace Type: onsite

Salary:

• Design and execute sensor evaluation experiments for LiDARs, radars, and other sensors used in our production stack
• Characterize bandwidth, latency, jitter, and packet loss for different sensors and configurations
  Contribute to sensor driver and data pipeline improvements in C++ and Python
• Analyze and improve multi-sensor time synchronization (PTP/gPTP, NIC hardware timestamps, clock offset/jitter measurement)
• Investigate phase alignment between LiDAR, radar, GNSS/IMU, and vehicle motion signals for better fusion and perception performance
• Support integration of sensor safety concepts, such as basic health and status monitoring
  Build tooling and dashboards to visualize sensor performance (latency histograms, bandwidth plots, sync error, etc.)
• Document findings and present recommendations to the robotics / perception / systems teams

Responsibilities

• Design and execute sensor evaluation experiments for LiDARs, radars, and other sensors used in our production stack
• Characterize bandwidth, latency, jitter, and packet loss for different sensors and configurations
• Contribute to sensor driver and data pipeline improvements in C++ and Python
• Analyze and improve multi-sensor time synchronization (PTP/gPTP, NIC hardware timestamps, clock offset/jitter measurement)
• Investigate phase alignment between LiDAR, radar, GNSS/IMU, and vehicle motion signals for better fusion and perception performance
• Support integration of sensor safety concepts, such as basic health and status monitoring
• Build tooling and dashboards to visualize sensor performance (latency histograms, bandwidth plots, sync error, etc.)
• Document findings and present recommendations to the robotics / perception / systems teams

Required Skills

• Strong coding skills in C++ and/or C and Python
  Comfortable working in Linux (shell, compiling code, basic debugging, log inspection)
• Experience capturing and analyzing sensor traffic using tools like tcpdump, Wireshark, or custom logging pipelines
• Strong interest in systems-level performance: profiling, bottleneck analysis, latency and jitter measurement

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with systems concepts:
  
• Data structures and algorithms
  Networking fundamentals (UDP/TCP, ports, sockets, throughput vs latency)
  
• Familiarity with robotics or sensor systems, such as LiDAR, radar, IMU, or cameras (project, coursework, or hobby)
  
• Strong analytical and communication skills; ability to turn raw data into clear, actionable insights