Hardware Intern — Robotics & AI

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Instawork Robotics Labs (IRL India) · Bengaluru · Internship (Full-time, On-site)

Build the hardware that teaches robots about the real world Robots learn from data — and the best data comes from the real world, captured at scale. At IRL India, we’re building Instacore, our proprietary 5-camera + IMU wearable capture rig that records rich, egocentric video of humans doing real tasks in real environments. Hundreds of these units run across India every day, feeding the training pipelines of frontier Physical AI models.

Your job: keep this fleet alive, fast, and growing. If you’ve spent nights in a workshop before a Robocon run, wrenched on a Formula Student or BAJA vehicle, or built anything that had to actually work under pressure — this role was designed for you.

• Own uptime for the Instacore fleet. Build, assemble, test, and troubleshoot the mechanical and electrical systems that keep hundreds of units capturing data daily.

• Ship hardware iterations fast. Work directly with our robotics team to prototype, integrate, and stress-test improvements to the rig — cameras, IMUs, wiring, mounts, power

• Get your hands dirty. Sensors, actuators, controllers, soldering irons, 3D printers — this is a workshop role, not a slideware role.

• Travel and deploy. Set up hardware hubs across India and APAC. You’ll see your work running in the field, not just on a bench.

• Debug like a detective. Trace faults through hands-on testing, fix them, and document what you learned so the fleet gets more reliable every week.

• Keep the lab sharp. Maintain tools, components, test setups, and build documentation the whole team relies on.

• What we’re looking forPursuing or recently completed a degree/diploma in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Electronics, Electrical, Robotics, or a related field.

• Battle scars from Robocon, Formula Student/FSAE, BAJA, e-Yantra, or similar competitions — especially if you spent months building a vehicle or robot that had to perform on demand

• Hands-on experience with IoT systems, cameras, sensors, Raspberry Pi, 3D printing, and soldering.

• Working knowledge of motors, sensors, actuators, electronics, mechanical systems, and wiring.

• A bias for figuring things out: you’d rather open the enclosure and probe the board than wait for someone to tell you the answer.

• Willingness to travel PAN-India and across APAC for deployments.

• Leadership: Demonstrated leadership by leading a team/project during Robocon, Formula Student, robotics competitions, or similar engineering projects, taking ownership from planning through execution.

• Real fleet, real stakes. Your fixes directly determine how many hours of robot-training data get captured this week.

• Frontier of Physical AI. The data you help collect trains some of the world’s most advanced robotics foundation models.

• Full-stack hardware exposure. From soldering a connector to deploying a hub in a new city — you’ll touch the entire lifecycle.

• Small team, big ownership. You’ll work directly with senior robotics engineers and see your ideas shipped in days, not quarters.

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