robotic systems engineer intern

Summary: Mundane is a venture-backed seed-stage robot learning startup founded by a team of Stanford researchers and builders. As a Robotics Development Intern, you will work alongside robotics engineers to build, integrate, and debug critical components of humanoid robot systems, emphasizing practical robotics engineering and collaboration across teams. Responsibilities: - Assist with hardware bring-up, integration, and debugging of robot subsystems including sensors, actuators, and compute systems - Integrate and troubleshoot actuators and sensors, including calibration, signal validation, and fault isolation - Develop and maintain ROS 2 nodes, launch files, and tooling supporting robot behaviors and infrastructure - Work with engineers to implement and test robot arm controllers, including PID tuning and compensation techniques - Contribute to robot modeling using URDF/Xacro and validate robot kinematics within ROS-based workflows - Support development of robot system debugging tools including logging, rosbag analysis, and visualization in RViz - Assist with robot bring-up in the lab, including wiring, hardware validation, and iterative troubleshooting - Work on Linux-based robot compute systems, helping debug networking, device interfaces, and runtime issues - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support rapid prototyping, testing, and iteration of robotic systems Required Qualifications: - Hands-on experience building, integrating, and debugging hardware systems (robotics or electromechanical products) - Proven ability to integrate and troubleshoot actuators and sensors, including bring-up, calibration, signal validation, and fault isolation - Strong fundamentals in mechatronics, including motors/drives, sensors, mechanisms, and basic control concepts - Experience developing with ROS 2, including nodes, topics/services/actions, launch files, TF, rosbag workflows, debugging tools, and RViz - Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++ for robotics systems and tooling - Understanding of robot kinematics and dynamics, including experience working with URDF/Xacro and robot models - Comfortable performing hands-on lab work, including wiring, hardware bring-up, and iterative troubleshooting - Experience working with Linux-based compute systems, including development workflows, networking, device interfaces, and debugging tools - Experience with robotic arm control, including developing controllers and tuning (PID or impedance control), along with compensation techniques such as friction, gravity, backlash, and feedforward Preferred Qualifications: - Experience building robotics simulations using tools such as MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, or similar simulators - Experience with signal processing techniques, including filtering, observers, or Kalman filtering - Working knowledge of common robotics communication interfaces and protocols such as CAN, USB, GMSL, Ethernet, or EtherCAT - Experience working with real-time Linux kernels, including deterministic scheduling, latency/jitter measurement, and debugging timing issues Required Skills: Hardware Systems Integration, Actuators, Sensors Troubleshooting, Mechatronics, ROS 2 Development, Python Programming, C++ Programming, Robot Kinematics, Dynamics, URDF/Xacro Modeling, Lab Hardware Bring-up, Linux-based Compute Systems, Robotic Arm Control, PID, Impedance Control Benefits: Competitive salary + equity, Flexible PTO, Legendary merch, Coffee, Robots, Sauna & cold plunge (pending)