Robot SDK Engineer intern at Anki San Francisco, CA About Us: Anki is a leading consumer robotics company, founded by three Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute graduates. Were building on decades of scientific research to make artificial intelligence accessible to everyone. We are dedicated to creating unique consumer products that people would not expect to be possible, powered by robotics and AI. We deliver accessible consumer robots at high-scale, along the way solving incredibly hard, real-world robotics problems while building a great consumer brand and company. Our products perform under a wide variety of real-world conditions in people's homes, every day, reliably and consistently and aim to represent the premium and most capable choice in the categories they are in. We push the boundaries of expectations for what an affordable and accessible consumer robot can do today and were leveraging our presence in more than nearly two million households to build a software, hardware and cloud technology stack that will power a wide variety of even more capable consumer robots in the near future. Our earlier products in entertainment ( Overdrive and Cozmo ) have been near the top of their categories for years, and Anki is now branding out into Home Robotics with continued development to push the boundaries on the smart home and into diverse related sectors. Recently, Anki launched Vector , the companys first fully autonomous, always-on home robot with a rich personality that is also a helpful companion. Being cloud-connected and packing an impressive amount of tech in a small form, Vector (The Good Robot) is a living character and an evolving consumer robotics platform that will continually expand for years to come. To date, we have closed more than $200M in investments from top-tier investors such as JP Morgan Chase. Last year, Anki generated nearly $100M in revenue. Were proud to be regarded as industry leaders in the consumer robotics & AI space. Some of our recent accolades include: Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies in the Robotics Category (2015, 2016 & #2 in 2017) CB Insight Artificial 100 List (2017 & 2018) Robotics Business Review RBR50 List 2017 San Francisco Business Times Tech & Innovation Awards 2017 Visit the Anki website and find us on Facebook and YouTube to learn more. Description: We are seeking an SDK Intern to help us build and expand our Vector SDK, opening up our platform and allow our players and fans to make something cool with their existing Vector robots. Part of this role will be to help identify and build out features of our internal infrastructure that will be used in both our products and in our SDK. It could be just software, but the coolest projects would combine software with Anki Vector hardware in making something awesome. You can check in on our Cozmo SDK here . Check out what one of our previous interns achieved in his Cozmo SDK work! https://developer.anki.com/blog/featured/finding-color-with-cozmo/ And this past year, our intern (now full-time employee) Rakesh used machine learning to teach Vector sign language using the Vector Python SDK. Responsibilities: Brainstorming and proposing a project that will drive SDK development; this could include sample programs (Python) or tools that will be shared with the community Help build or refactor internal APIs for re-use in the robot's engine as well as the SDK Build internal tools used for development or prototyping Completing a project with documentation and sample code and showing demos/making videos Qualifications: Either C/C++ OR Python design and implementation experience required, both preferred. golang is a bonus. Independent worker who has come up with their own projects in the past Benefits: Great San Francisco office with lots of light and great views, convenient to every mode of mass transit on wheels, on rails, and on water Regularly scheduled on and off-site team building activities Start-up environment where youll help shape the culture and have a huge impact Free catered lunches, snacks, and drinks You get to work on innovative products and challenging problems with some amazingly talented (and fun) people!