Winter 2027 Research Engineer Co-op

Job summary

Responsibilities

We are scaling from a founding team to more than 70 engineers across multiple U.S. sites. As an intern you join early, on a problem that matters to production, with a defined project and a named engineer you work with every day.

• Profiling a C++ computational geometry pipeline on real assemblies and reporting where time and memory go
• Designing and implementing algorithmic improvements to a disassembly sequence search: candidate ordering, pruning, memoization, and incremental graph updates
• Decomposing large assemblies into subassemblies that can be solved independently
• Parallelizing expensive geometric tests across cores without losing determinism
• Building a benchmark corpus and harness that run in continuous integration and catch regressions

What they're looking for

• Must be pursuing master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
• Must be returning to school at the end of the internship to continue academic studies for at least one quarter or semester.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities; U.S. clearance eligibility may be required depending on program.
• Ability to complete an in-person co-op in Santa Ana, CA, in winter 2027.
• Strong modern C++, C++17 or later. You have written and debugged performance-sensitive C++ in a codebase you did not write yourself, not only coursework.

Tech stack

• Go
• C++
• Python
• NumPy