Robotics Controls Intern

What we offer:
At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.
Group Summary:
Magna is more than one of the world's largest suppliers in the automotive space. We are a mobility technology company built to innovate, with a global, entrepreneurial-minded team. With 65+ years of expertise, our ecosystem of interconnected products combined with our complete vehicle expertise uniquely positions us to advance mobility in an expanded transportation landscape.
Job Responsibilities:
Position Overview
This is a research intern position within the Advanced Robotics team in the Corporate Engineering and R&D department. The Advanced Robotics team is focused on developing novel technologies that give robots human-like capabilities in perception and dexterity. The candidate will design and develop simulation pipeline for Robot Controller design. The candidate will get a chance to work under the guidance of a Motion Planning & Controls Technical Specialist. Magna's Student Program provides students the opportunity to gain practical work experience in their area of study related to the automotive industry.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop a ROS 2 based Robotic Simulation pipeline for Controller Design.
• Create representative case study to understand solution capabilities and limitations.
• Create, modify, and implement the software packages to a practical application.
• Develop evaluation criteria to test and evaluate the effectiveness of the systems.
• Support Robotic controllers testing on real robots
• Present technical results and provide recommendations based on the case study.

Qualifications:

• Understanding of Control Theory and implementing Control algorithms for Robotic Manipulation tasks.
• Prior developing experience in ROS 2.
• Prior experience in working with ROS 2 Control, ROS messages and Control Plugins.
• Ability to understand and use Collision Physics and Dynamics for contact rich manipulation.
• Prior experience or ability to make proper use of physics model of the simulation tool for contact-based manipulation tasks.
• Excellent coding and scripting abilities in Python, C++ and ROS 2.
• Prior experience in one of the simulation tools: Webots, Mujoco, Drake,CopelliaSim,NVIDIA Issac Sim, Gazebo.
• Good understanding of Robotics fundamentals.
• Curious, Team Player and ability to thrive in collaborative, small team environment.

Education / Experience

• Current Graduate student preferably in a MS or PhD program focused on Robotics, Controls and Motion Planning for manipulator robots

Physical Demands / Work Environment:

• Normal amount of sitting or standing, average mobility to move around an office (Holly, MI) environment, able to conduct a normal amount of work at a computer.

Awareness, Unity, Empowerment:
At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That's why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.
Worker Type:
Student / Co-Op
Group:
Magna Corporate