About this role
About the Role
We are looking for a Developer Advocate / Research Community Intern to help shape a high-quality community at the frontier of robotics and physical AI.
This role is about building meaningful spaces for learning, exchange, and connection across the robotics ecosystem. You will help bring together researchers, engineers, and technical builders through paper reading groups, technical discussions, hackathons, curated gatherings, and other community programs that make strong people want to participate and stay engaged.
The goal is not simply to run events, but to cultivate a community with real intellectual energy — one that attracts thoughtful people, encourages serious discussion, and strengthens the connection between emerging research and real-world systems.
If you are excited about robotics, love being around smart and curious people, and enjoy creating environments where learning and community can thrive, this role could be a great fit.
What You’ll Do
Build and grow a high-signal robotics community
Help create a community that attracts researchers, engineers, and technical builders in robotics and physical AI
Foster an environment where strong ideas, shared curiosity, and thoughtful exchange can compound over time
Organize recurring learning programs
Run paper reading groups around important research directions and major conferences such as ICRA, RSS, and CoRL
Facilitate discussions that go beyond summary and encourage real engagement with the work
Create meaningful community experiences
Organize hackathons, technical salons, guest talks, and research-driven events
Host smaller, high-quality gatherings such as dinners and community meetups that deepen relationships across the ecosystem
Design programs that make the community feel both intellectually serious and genuinely welcoming
Curate and amplify important ideas
Identify and surface papers, themes, and research directions that matter
Turn technical work into clear, engaging, and accessible community content
Bridge research and real-world systems
Connect emerging ideas from the research community to practical questions in robotics, simulation, data, and deployment
Bring outside perspective and community insight back into the team
Support long-term ecosystem building
Help strengthen relationships with researchers, labs, developers, and collaborators
Contribute to a community that can become a meaningful gathering point within the robotics ecosystem
Who You Are
Deeply interested in robotics, AI, or related technical fields
Excited by new ideas, strong technical conversations, and ambitious builders
Enjoys organizing thoughtful events and bringing the right people together
Has strong taste for what makes a community, discussion, or gathering genuinely valuable
A clear communicator with curiosity, judgment, and follow-through
Self-directed, reliable, and energized by building things from the ground up
Nice to Have
Background in robotics, machine learning, computer vision, or a related area
Experience organizing reading groups, workshops, community events, or hackathons
Familiarity with robotics tooling or simulation ecosystems such as: ROS 2, NVIDIA Isaac Sim
Existing connection to technical communities, research groups, or developer ecosystems
What You’ll Gain
Exposure to real-world work across robotics, simulation, data, and evaluation
The opportunity to help shape an emerging research and developer ecosystem in physical AI
Access to a growing network of researchers, engineers, and technical builders
Hands-on experience at the intersection of research, community, and frontier technology
Potential path to a longer-term role
Why This Role Matters
The strongest technical communities are not built through scale alone. They are built through quality, consistency, and the ability to create spaces where talented people genuinely want to participate.
In this role, you will help build that kind of space in robotics and physical AI — one where researchers, engineers, and builders come together not just to attend, but to engage, contribute, and grow.