Robotics Engineering Internship — R&D Integration & Testing

Who are we?

You've seen the videos — humanoid robots dancing, boxing, doing backflips. Impressive. But the real question nobody has answered yet is: what happens when that robot is standing in your kitchen?

Humanoid robots will enter our daily lives. Whether that's in 3 years or 10 depends on one thing: the brain running the software. Today's robots can move. They just can't think — not autonomously, not in the messy, unstructured reality of a home environment.

That's the challenge we tackle at Lili-O. We build the autonomous brain that will power household robots — enabling them to understand their environment, plan long-horizon tasks, and act without human supervision. We are a French / Korean company and the creators of the very first autonomous data foundry built specifically for home environments.

You will work under the French headquarters — the R&D office.

The Role

You will join the technical team as the bridge between algorithmic R&D and the real robot. Your job: integrate internally developed modules and test them in real-world conditions.

Responsibilities

• Software integration of R&D modules on the robot (perception, planning, control)
• Setting up and running data collection pipelines on the robot
• Writing test protocols and maintaining experiment logs
• Contributing to simulation environments to replicate real-world scenarios before robot deployment
• Participating in the design of evaluation benchmarks for new R&D modules
• Debugging, iterating and reporting results back to the research team

Profile

Hard Skills

• Strong command of Python and/or C++
• Comfortable with mathematics (linear algebra, geometry, optimization)
• Comfortable with Linux and command-line environments
• Bonus: experience with computer vision libraries (OpenCV, Open3D)
• Bonus: basic understanding of control theory or robot kinematics
• Bonus: experience with a physics simulator (MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, PyBullet)

Soft Skills

• Curious and versatile — at ease switching between different technical topics in the same day
• Proactive — able to identify and raise issues without waiting to be asked
• Able to document work clearly in a small team environment
• Comfortable in a fast-moving, early-stage startup environment
• Bonus: interest in research

Why this internship

Most robotics internships keep you in simulation. Here, you'll work on real robots in real home environments from day one. At Lili-O, R&D moves fast and your contributions ship directly onto the robot — no lengthy validation chains, no waiting. You'll see the impact of your work in the same week you write it.

This will be a dense, demanding internship — but you will learn an enormous amount in a very short time. You'll be exposed to the full stack of a cutting-edge robotics company, from low-level integration to research-grade evaluation. Depending on the project's progress, there may also be opportunities to travel to our Seoul office in South Korea.

What We Offer

• Access to real robots in home environments from day one
• Direct mentorship from the founding team
• Paris, hybrid, can be adapted
• Duration: 6 months