AI Research Intern

Role Overview

Copperhead is an open-source AI engineering platform for electronics that designs, documents, and validates real printed circuit boards from a written brief. We are looking for a highly motivated AI Research Intern to explore and build new approaches for automating electronics and PCB design, focusing on agentic systems, reinforcement learning, and ML-based physics models. This is a full-time, on-site internship based in Bengaluru.

Responsibilities

• Research new approaches for schematic generation, component selection, placement, and routing
• Build and evaluate AI agents that plan, modify, and verify PCB designs
• Explore reinforcement learning for constrained design and optimization problems
• Develop ML-based physics and surrogate models for electrical and physical validation
• Implement ideas from recent AI, ML, EDA, and computational engineering research
• Design experiments, evaluation datasets, benchmarks, and reliability metrics
• Integrate research prototypes with KiCad and deterministic engineering tools
• Analyze failures and turn promising experiments into production systems
• Document findings and contribute to technical reports or research publications
• Contribute directly to Copperhead’s open-source codebase

Requirements

• Strong foundations in machine learning and deep learning
• Proficiency in Python and experience with PyTorch, JAX, or similar frameworks
• Experience with LLMs, transformers, tool use, or agentic systems
• Ability to read, understand, and implement ideas from research papers
• Familiarity with experimental design and quantitative evaluation
• Strong software engineering and problem-solving skills
• Curiosity about electronics, PCB design, EDA, or computational engineering
• Ability to work independently and take research projects from hypothesis to prototype

Nice to Have

• Experience with reinforcement learning or combinatorial optimization
• Familiarity with physics-informed machine learning or graph neural networks
• Experience with simulation, surrogate modelling, or scientific computing
• Knowledge of KiCad, circuit design, or other EDA tools
• Publications, research projects, or technically ambitious open-source work
• Experience building AI systems used by real users

Skills

• Python
• PyTorch
• JAX
• LLMs
• KiCad