Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is looking to improve the quality of human life by developing new tools and capabilities to amplify the human experience, specifically in the area of automated driving, energy & materials, human-centered AI, human interactive driving, large behavior models, and robotics. The Mobile Manipulation team aims to develop and integrate innovative solutions for robots to perform complex, human-level mobile manipulation tasks, navigate with and among people, and learn and adapt over time, transitioning this technology to a product that impacts millions of people.
Requirements
- Experience designing and integrating hardware for real-world robotic systems, particularly mobile manipulation systems.
- Experience in creative and novel design along with integration of mechanical, control, and sensing systems, including various fabrication techniques and materials.
- The ability to design and deploy integrated mechanical/sensing systems that complement and bring to bear advanced software and learning algorithms.
- Experience in architecture, schematic design, and PCB layout of complex electrical subsystems.
- The ability to implement interface, communications, and control firmware, with microcontrollers or FPGAs.
- Experience in design for small scale contract manufacturing and assembly, and working with industrial designers for early stage product design.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and development of a next generation mobile manipulation platform to accelerate advancement of useful human-scale tasks.
- Develop prototypes and perform trade studies to identify and specify key system components, including sensors, compute, communications, and actuation, of the platform.
- Design and integrate creative solutions; combining actuation, structure, and sensing, as well as new mechanisms and actuation for human-scale manipulation and mobility.
- Design, bring up, and debug custom electrical sub-systems, including power systems, motor control, and sensor interfaces, and the overall electrical system.
- Develop firmware for control of mechanisms, acquisition of sensor data, and communications with the rest of the system.
Other
- summer 2026 paid 12-week internship opportunity
- in-office role
- An outstanding teammate with strong interpersonal skills.
- B.S. or M.S. in an engineering-related field.
