Machine Learning Research Intern

Length

Stipend

Will strongly prefer hiring from IITs/IISc/BITS etc

2025 or 2026 grads.

Will be open if you already have a full-time offer but joining is at a later date

Joining: Immediate

About Tonks AI

At Tonks AI, we generate high-quality sim-ready environments and scenarios to bridge the sim-to-real gap for autonomous systems. Our platform enables robotics teams to:

Create realistic environments from text or image prompts Generate tailored scenarios automatically with our AI agent

Role Description

We are looking for a Machine Learning Research Intern with hands-on experience in creating AI pipelines with focus on mesh reconstruction and methods like Gaussian Splatting or NeRF. You will design, configure, and optimize these pipelines, and collaborate with our AI scenario-generation pipeline to ensure our customers can run robust, scalable simulations.

Responsibilities

1. Study mesh reconstruction methods by reading research papers and their GitHub repositories
2. Build a pipeline to injest images and return models
3. Benchmark performance against different configurations and compute.
4. Optimize simulations for realism, scalability, and cloud deployment.

Requirements

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related fields. Preferably from IITs/BITS/IISc.
2. List of related projects and portfolio we could see.
3. Proficiency in Python
4. Desire to work in an early-stage startup.

What We Offer

Opportunity to work on the cutting edge of robotics simulation and AI.

Work closely with founders from IIT Bombay and Microsoft Research backgrounds.