2027 Internship Evaluation Engineer, Metric Prototyping

Join the team bringing advanced autonomy to the built world

At Bedrock, we're moving AI out of the lab and into the real world. Our team includes veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition, and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. Today, we're deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction equipment across the country, improving safety on job sites and accelerating schedules on critical infrastructure projects.

We're not here debating the future of AI. We're deploying it in the real world. In just two years, we've raised $350M and achieved the first fully autonomous excavator deployments in construction.

This is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots. You'll work alongside construction veterans and world-class engineers to solve physical-world problems that simulations can't touch. If you're ready to do meaningful work on hard problems, we'd love to have you join us.

About the Role & Team

Every time Bedrock works with a new machine for tasks like grading pads, digging trenches, or loading trucks, we need a way to verify the machine is actually performing well. The Evaluation team defines what "good" looks like: building the metrics, benchmarks, and evaluation pipelines that tell us whether our autonomy stack is improving or just changing. As our Evaluation intern, you'll prototype new metrics for future machine tasks, the ones we haven't shipped yet, so that when the autonomy team is ready to train, there's already a clear scoreboard.

What You'll Do

• Partner closely with data understanding and ML engineers to rapidly iterate on new metric formulations and task benchmarks

• Mine fleet datasets for key reference examples and edge cases, then test proposed metrics against live runs and historical logs

• Get your boots on the ground at our test sites to observe machine performance firsthand and build intuitive, real-world grounding for how your metrics perform

• Take physical, ground-truth measurements in the field to validate quantitative metric concepts against actual jobsite results

• Build evaluation tooling to triage performance regressions and design agentic feedback loops that accelerate evaluation analysis

• Validate metric outputs against domain expert and operator judgment to ensure scoring aligns with real construction standards

• Document metric definitions, assumptions, and failure modes clearly so the team can maintain and extend your scoreboard post-internship

What We're Looking For

Required

• Currently pursuing a BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, robotics, statistics, operations research, or a related quantitative field — or bringing equivalent hands-on experience

• Strong Python and comfort building data pipelines and analysis tooling

• Ability to translate a fuzzy notion of "good" into a concrete, measurable definition — and to articulate why that definition is the right one

• Solid statistical intuition: understanding variance, significance, and when a number is actually telling you something

• Clear written and verbal communication — metric definitions have to be understood and trusted by people who didn't build them

Preferred

• Experience with evaluation frameworks, benchmarking, or measurement methodology in ML, robotics, or a related domain

• Familiarity with geospatial data, point clouds, or survey-grade measurement

• Prior work with autonomous vehicle or robotics evaluation pipelines

Bedrock Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

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