Summer PhD Intern (Robotics), Smart Products

Job description

Description

Are you passionate about solving tough challenges? At P&G you can use your analytical skills to find creative solutions for consumer's everyday problems! If this sounds like fun, we would love to have you join us as a Summer Intern joining our Smart Products team.

The Smart Products team is looking for engineers with passion and talent for solving meaningful consumer problems through innovative technology! Starting with a broad vision of emergent technologies and a deep understanding of consumer issues that need to be solved, we use technologies such as devices, connectivity, machine learning, embedded systems, cloud computing, robotics, etc. to identify, synthesize, and prototype testable solutions in a fast-paced, hands-on, agile team environment.

Your work will include:

Mapping the landscape of emerging robotics hardware, software, and platforms relevant to home automation tasks.

Developing a working prototype with commercial hardware-software to solve a simplified version of the task.

Sharing key insights from the process with broader team to further collective understanding of the home automation space.

Handling software developed and data collected from experiments.

Qualifications

You should have a proven understanding of the following:

- Real-time robotic control

- path planning

- Navigation algorithms

Requirements (skills / experiences) for the role:

- Enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering or related field

- Hardware-software integration

- Python C/C++programming

- Machine Learning

- Reinforcement Learning

- Data Analytics

- Be excited to explore new methods and applications

- Experience with conducting independent and collaborative research projects.

- Ability to learn quickly and work independently.

About Us

We produce globally recognized brands and we grow the best business leaders in the industry. With a portfolio of trusted brands as diverse as ours, it is paramount our leaders are able to lead with courage the vast array of brands, categories and functions. We serve consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ariel®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Herbal Essences®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, Tampax® and more. Our community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide.

Visit http://www.pg.com to know more.

Our consumers are diverse and our talents - internally - mirror this diversity to best serve it. That is why we’re committed to building a winning culture based on Inclusion and our ideal candidate is passionate about the same principle: you will join our daily effort of being “in touch” so we craft brands and products to improve the lives of the world’s consumers now and in the future. We want you to inspire us with your unrivaled ideas.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, citizenship, HIV/AIDS status or any other legally protected factor.

Immigration sponsorship is not available for this role. As a general matter, Procter & Gamble does not sponsor candidates for nonimmigrant visas or permanent residency. However, Procter & Gamble may make exceptions on a discretionary basis. Any exceptions would be based on the Company's specific business needs at the time and place of recruitment as well as the particular qualifications of the individual.

Procter & Gamble participates in e-verify as required by law.

Qualified individuals will not be disadvantaged based on being unemployed.

Job locations:
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Job Type: Full-time Req No: RND00004352