Robotics Engineering Intern

At Acrylic, we care deeply about art, creativity, and expression. Our goal is to bring physical art to everyday people, helping them connect with artists, develop taste, and hang something meaningful on their walls. We're building systems that connect generative AI and physical AI, linking digital creativity with the mechanics of the real world. Our work spans robotic hardware, digital illustration, generative design tools, and the software infrastructure that connects them. We're looking for a Robotics Engineering Intern who is excited to learn by building real things. You'll work on our production cell, not toy projects, and ensure that our technology is built to withstand thousands of paintings a week. This internship is intentionally hands-on. You'll be trusted with meaningful problems, supported by talented engineers, and expected to learn quickly, iterate often, and take ownership of your work. **What You'll Do** * Work closely with engineers to refine and harden our industrial robotic cell into a commercial-ready, "ready to sell" system, improving reliability, efficiency, and repeatability. * Support the transition from prototype to product, focusing on code robustness, manufacturability, and the details that make a system trustworthy in the field. * Help develop and integrate a custom digital design software that turns a design into the program the robot paints, owning features end to end, from the designer's screen to the robot's motion. * Work with our robotics and software teams so what's designed digitally ends up faithfully on the canvas. * Take ownership of production integration including robot setup, calibration, testing, and validation in real production environments. * Get your hands dirty doing real industrial automation and software work that directly impacts our ability to scale and ship. **Who You Are** You are someone who learns best by doing. * You like to move fast. You'd rather build a rough version early, test it, and iterate than wait for perfect clarity. * You have opinions about how things should work, and you're open to being wrong. You ask "why," challenge ideas respectfully, and change your mind when you learn something new. * You care deeply about whether something actually works for the user. Bugs, broken flows, and confusing behavior bother you. * You finish what you start. "Done" means tested, verified, and followed up on. * You are generous with your time and energy. You help teammates, ask good questions, and share what you learn. * You are comfortable with ambiguity. When requirements aren't fully defined, you make reasonable assumptions and keep moving. * You enjoy building things with your hands as well as with code, whether that's prototyping, tinkering, or experimenting with hardware or simulations. * You communicate clearly, are open to feedback, and care about doing good work. * You like supporting people. The best part of your day should be solving someone's problem. You don't need to be an expert, but you should have some familiarity with or strong interest in: * Python * CAD * Building software tools or GUIs * The joys of matrix multiplication **What Success Looks Like** * You Get Shit Done * and have a good time doing it Full-time, in-person in Montreal. We review applications on a rolling basis and tailor the process to the role and the person. Our goal is to get to know you, not put you through a hiring gauntlet.