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Samsung Research America

<div>Lab Summary: Samsung Design Innovation Center has opened a Computational Design Lab, reinventing the way we design products and manufacturing with computational design, AI an ML in its two office locations: Paris and San Francisco. In this new dynamic lab, we will solve inspirational and complex design problems to spark creativity, to optimize design concepts, and to design innovative products for the present and the future while collaborating between the two satellite offices. The lab will engage with various internal teams across the world to create globally-impacting designs by collecting data, developing models, and applying computations.

The Computational Design Lab is part of Samsung Design Innovation Center (SDIC) and the overall mission is to understand people and lifestyles to deliver meaningful experiences through beautiful yet functional design enabled by innovative cutting-edge technologies.

The studio is working on various advanced product experiences to shape future of Samsung Businesses, working with various different internal teams through experience design driven approach. Our work appears on smartphones, tablets, computers, televisions, wearables, and other devices we can't describe yet. See some of our work at http://design.samsung.com/global/contents/sdic/

Position Summary: We are looking for talented computer scientists, mechanical engineers, mathematicians and/or creative technologists to join our group and bring new energy to our process. You should be ready to help at all stages of product engineering design, from identifying unmet and latent needs, discovering new design opportunities, designing new product concepts to applying technology creatively to solve real user problems and create radically new experiences that re-imagine the way we interact with products.

The Computational Designer Intern should understand product design and engineer methods and be able to apply computational design to find optimal design solutions for any given design requirements. As a Computational Designer Intern, you will work with diverse talents to develop generative design models and algorithms to develop and validate designs by employing emergent design and simulation techniques. The goal is to derive human-centered distinctive solutions.

Position Responsibilities:
<ul>
<li>Develop computer-graphics based pipelines to manipulate, transform and work with 3D meshes.</li>
<li>Develop algorithms for 3D mesh generation using Machine learning.</li>
<li>Develop algorithms and pipelines for 3D mesh analysis.</li>
</ul>
Required Skills:
<ul>
<li>Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree related to Computer graphics, Computational Design, Machine learning, or mechanical engineering.</li>
<li>Strong knowledge in numerical methods and work with 3D meshes.</li>
<li>A strong passion for innovation and creative prototype development.</li>
</ul>
Special Attributes:
<ul>
<li>Deep understanding of geometry topology and parametric design.</li>
<li>Advanced used of Grasshopper, Rhinoceros 8 (Blender and Houdini are a plus).</li>
<li>Programming skills in Python (JS/TS, C++, C#, is a plus).</li>
<li>AI/ML data science skillsets (SCIKIT LEARN, PANDAS/SEABORN, etc).</li>
<li>Experience working with 3D libraries such as Open3D, trimesh, vedo, Igl.</li>
<li>Finite Element Analysis and mechanical engineering knowledge is a plus.</li>
<li>Understanding of product development, materials, and manufacturing processes.</li>
<li>Deep design engineering process knowledge.</li>
<li>Hands-on approach, flexible &amp; agile, and comfortable experimenting with a fresh, original perspective.</li>
<li>Self-driven, willing to act on launching novel projects ideas and developing concepts from scratch.</li>
</ul>
We will consider qualified applicants for employment with arrest and conviction records.<div>
Additional Information
Disclosure of Trade Secrets

Samsung has a strict policy on trade secrets. In applying to Samsung and progressing through the recruitment process, you must not disclose any trade secrets of a current or previous employer.

Essential Job Functions

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, and frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Samsung Research America is committed to complying with all Federal, State and local laws related to the employment of qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact the recruiter or email sratalent@samsung.com. 


Equal Employment Opportunity

At Samsung, we believe that innovation and growth are driven by an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. We aim to create a global team where everyone belongs and has equal opportunities, inspiring our talent to be their true selves. Together, we are building a better tomorrow for our customers, partners, and communities.

Samsung Research America is committed to employing a diverse workforce, and provide Equal Employment Opportunity for all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

For more information regarding protection from discrimination under Federal law for applicants and employees, please refer to this link: Pay Transparency</div></div>

2026 Intern, Computational Designer (Summer)

<div>Lab Summary:

The Emerging Technologies Group is uniquely positioned to be at the heart of Samsung Research America's innovation engine aimed towards advancing Samsung's product offerings across smartphones, wearables, TVs, XR/AR devices, and identifying the next big growth drivers for Samsung. The group's mission is to discover, incubate, and accelerate high-potential innovative technologies that lay the foundation for future Samsung products and services. To achieve this mission, the group collaborates closely with external entities such as universities, startups, VCs, and government labs, in addition to Samsung's product and advanced research labs. SRA's academic and startup programs enable research breakthroughs on cutting edge technologies by fostering collaborations between academia and industry, and the Emerging Technologies Group is at the core of these programs. Our team also drives the technical and business validation required to commercialize these technologies across Samsung's ecosystem &ndash; from Smartphones and Wearables to PCs, TVs, and Home Appliances.

Position Summary:

You are passionate about evangelizing and realizing a technology vision for products that are beyond the horizon. In this role, you will be researching new emerging technologies, developing business cases, and driving pivotal academic and startup collaboration initiatives in new technology areas. You will work closely with cross functional SRA teams, university professors and researchers, startup founders, and SRA researchers to identify, mature, and commercialize nascent technologies. You are a highly motivated self-starter who will contribute significantly to defining problem statements, creating roadmaps, catalyze building irrefutable evidence for technology viability, defining milestones and success metrics, and driving projects with aggressive schedules to completion.

Position Responsibilities:
<ul>
<li>Identify and research emerging technologies and evaluate the associated product and business opportunities that enable Samsung to deliver new and exciting value to consumers.</li>
<li>Build compelling business cases for partnership, investment, or M&amp;A into new technologies and entry into new market segments and present to executive leaders.</li>
<li>Be a significant contributor to SRA's academic and startup collaboration programs, including driving program deliverables across technical analysis, early-stage technology research and PoC development, and risk mitigation.</li>
<li>Partner with SRA teams on internal innovation programs, and support project ideation and scoping.</li>
<li>Support efforts to track project milestones and impact, and present and demonstrate the research outputs to executive leaders.</li>
</ul>
Required Skills:
<ul><li>Pursuing a Ph.D. or MS in a relevant technology field or MBA at a top ranked university</li>
<li>Master's degree in a relevant technology field (e.g. Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, other etc.) (past technology, consulting, or strategy work experience preferred)</li>
<li>Exposure to several technologies, including but not limited to: Mobile, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Robotics, Health/Medical Tech, Computer Vision, Advanced Materials, etc.</li>
</ul>
Special Attributes:
<ul>
<li>Positive attitude and energy, imagination, resilience, flexibility and resourcefulness.</li>
<li>Clear communication skills with the ability to adapt to the audience and situation.</li>
<li>Strong analytical skills to build deliberate, objective recommendations and respond to challenges and objections.</li>
<li>Structured thinking to navigate ambiguous technological, organizational and scheduling situations.</li>
<li>Resilience to overcome hurdles and address failures with alternative paths.</li>
<li>Ability to rally the team to believe in the technology vision and execute on tight deadlines.</li>
</ul><div>
Additional Information
Disclosure of Trade Secrets

Samsung has a strict policy on trade secrets. In applying to Samsung and progressing through the recruitment process, you must not disclose any trade secrets of a current or previous employer.

Essential Job Functions

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, and frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Samsung Research America is committed to complying with all Federal, State and local laws related to the employment of qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact the recruiter or email sratalent@samsung.com. 


Equal Employment Opportunity

At Samsung, we believe that innovation and growth are driven by an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. We aim to create a global team where everyone belongs and has equal opportunities, inspiring our talent to be their true selves. Together, we are building a better tomorrow for our customers, partners, and communities.

Samsung Research America is committed to employing a diverse workforce, and provide Equal Employment Opportunity for all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

For more information regarding protection from discrimination under Federal law for applicants and employees, please refer to this link: Pay Transparency</div></div>

2026 Intern, Tech Incubation & Acceleration (Spring/Summer/Fall)

<div>Lab Summary: The Robot Intelligence Lab at Samsung Research America is a new facility dedicated to advancing the field of robotics through cutting-edge research and development. The lab's mission is to develop advanced technologies to power intelligent robotic systems capable of manipulation, navigation, and complex reasoning for a variety of high-impact application areas. To achieve this mission, the lab collaborates closely with external entities such as universities, startups, and government labs, as well as with several Samsung Product and Advanced Research labs.

Position Summary: Samsung Research America is looking for advanced students and early-career researchers who have solid technical skills and rich academic experience in areas of robotics and embodied intelligence. Our ideal candidate explores novel AI technologies towards generalizing robots to perform tasks in the real world. Samsung's unique advantage in the consumer electronics market and growing focus on AI and robotics will provide you with exciting technical challenges and a rewarding career experience. By leveraging Samsung's vast product ecosystem to deliver novel user experiences, your work will define Samsung's future in robotics and significantly impact real-world users.

Position Responsibilities:
<ul>
<li>Research and develop deep learning algorithms and system towards generalizing robots to perform tasks in the real world</li>
<li>Generate patents and scientific research papers for top-tier publications</li>
<li>Work with team to develop and optimize robotics foundation models, vision-language-action (VLA) models, and vision language models (VLMs) for embodied intelligence</li>
<li>Work with team to explore novel techniques, device interfaces, and policy architectures to train robotic vision-language-action (VLA) models effectively with limited available data</li>
<li>Work within cross-functional, cross-divisional teams and assist in the design, analysis, and performance evaluation from concept to completion</li>
</ul>
Required Skills:
<ul>
<li>Currently pursuing a PhD degree in EECS/Robotics</li>
<li>Solid understanding of computer vision techniques (e.g., object detection, segmentation, tracking) and real-time video tokenizer design and multi-view image processing</li>
<li>Demonstrated experience in robotics foundation models, vision-language-action (VLA) models, and vision language models (VLMs)</li>
<li>Strong research experience with embodied intelligence (reinforcement learning, imitation learning, task planning, perception, simulation platforms such as MuJoCo and Isaac Sim)</li>
<li>Familiarity with PyTorch, TensorFlow, C, C++, Java, ROS, and CUDA</li>
<li>Excellent verbal communication and writing skills to effectively represent the derived results and technical concepts developed in the course of the work</li></ul><div> 
Additional Information
Disclosure of Trade Secrets

Samsung has a strict policy on trade secrets. In applying to Samsung and progressing through the recruitment process, you must not disclose any trade secrets of a current or previous employer.

Essential Job Functions

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, and frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Samsung Research America is committed to complying with all Federal, State and local laws related to the employment of qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact the recruiter or email sratalent@samsung.com. 


Equal Employment Opportunity

At Samsung, we believe that innovation and growth are driven by an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. We aim to create a global team where everyone belongs and has equal opportunities, inspiring our talent to be their true selves. Together, we are building a better tomorrow for our customers, partners, and communities.

Samsung Research America is committed to employing a diverse workforce, and provide Equal Employment Opportunity for all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

For more information regarding protection from discrimination under Federal law for applicants and employees, please refer to this link: Pay Transparency</div></div>

2026 Intern, Robot Intelligence (Spring/Summer/Fall)

<div>Lab Summary: Samsung Design Innovation Center has opened a Computational Design Lab, reinventing the way we design products and manufacturing with computational design, AI an ML in its two office locations: Paris and San Francisco. In this new dynamic lab, we will solve inspirational and complex design problems to spark creativity, to optimize design concepts, and to design innovative products for the present and the future while collaborating between the two satellite offices. The lab will engage with various internal teams across the world to create globally-impacting designs by collecting data, developing models, and applying computations.

The Computational Design Lab is part of Samsung Design Innovation Center (SDIC) and the overall mission is to understand people and lifestyles to deliver meaningful experiences through beautiful yet functional design enabled by innovative cutting-edge technologies.

The studio is working on various advanced product experiences to shape future of Samsung Businesses, working with various different internal teams through experience design driven approach. Our work appears on smartphones, tablets, computers, televisions, wearables, and other devices we can't describe yet. See some of our work at http://design.samsung.com/global/contents/sdic/

Position Summary: We are looking for talented computer scientists, mechanical engineers, mathematicians and/or creative technologists to join our group and bring new energy to our process. You should be ready to help at all stages of product engineering design, from identifying unmet and latent needs, discovering new design opportunities, designing new product concepts to applying technology creatively to solve real user problems and create radically new experiences that re-imagine the way we interact with products.

The Computational Designer Intern should understand product design and engineer methods and be able to apply computational design to find optimal design solutions for any given design requirements. As a Computational Designer Intern, you will work with diverse talents to develop generative design models and algorithms to develop and validate designs by employing emergent design and simulation techniques. The goal is to derive human-centered distinctive solutions.

Position Responsibilities:
<ul>
<li>Develop computer-graphics based pipelines to manipulate, transform and work with 3D meshes.</li>
<li>Develop algorithms for 3D mesh generation using Machine learning.</li>
<li>Develop algorithms and pipelines for 3D mesh analysis.</li>
</ul>
Required Skills:
<ul>
<li>Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree related to Computer graphics, Computational Design, Machine learning, or mechanical engineering.</li>
<li>Strong knowledge in numerical methods and work with 3D meshes.</li>
<li>A strong passion for innovation and creative prototype development.</li>
</ul>
Special Attributes:
<ul>
<li>Deep understanding of geometry topology and parametric design.</li>
<li>Advanced used of Grasshopper, Rhinoceros 8 (Blender and Houdini are a plus).</li>
<li>Programming skills in Python (JS/TS, C++, C#, is a plus).</li>
<li>AI/ML data science skillsets (SCIKIT LEARN, PANDAS/SEABORN, etc).</li>
<li>Familiarity with CAD software (Catia, NX, Creo, Solidworks, etc).</li>
<li>Experience working with 3D libraries such as Open3D, trimesh, vedo, Igl.</li>
<li>Finite Element Analysis and mechanical engineering knowledge is a plus.</li>
<li>Understanding of product development, materials, and manufacturing processes.</li>
<li>Deep design engineering process knowledge.</li>
<li>Hands-on approach, flexible &amp; agile, and comfortable experimenting with a fresh, original perspective.</li>
<li>Self-driven, willing to act on launching novel projects ideas and developing concepts from scratch.</li>
</ul>
We will consider qualified applicants for employment with arrest and conviction records.<div>
Additional Information
Disclosure of Trade Secrets

Samsung has a strict policy on trade secrets. In applying to Samsung and progressing through the recruitment process, you must not disclose any trade secrets of a current or previous employer.

Essential Job Functions

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, and frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Samsung Research America is committed to complying with all Federal, State and local laws related to the employment of qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact the recruiter or email sratalent@samsung.com. 


Equal Employment Opportunity

At Samsung, we believe that innovation and growth are driven by an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. We aim to create a global team where everyone belongs and has equal opportunities, inspiring our talent to be their true selves. Together, we are building a better tomorrow for our customers, partners, and communities.

Samsung Research America is committed to employing a diverse workforce, and provide Equal Employment Opportunity for all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

For more information regarding protection from discrimination under Federal law for applicants and employees, please refer to this link: Pay Transparency</div></div>

2026 Intern, Computational Designer, 3D Specialist (Summer)

Join Samsung Research America and explore 4   exciting career opportunities. They're hiring for various roles with options for remote or on-site work. Apply today and become part of their innovative team.

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2026 Intern, Computational Designer, 3D Specialist (Summer)