Lightwheel (Guanglun) builds data and simulation infrastructure for physical AI, covering training, evaluation, and deployment feedback loops.
About the Role We are looking for a Developer Advocate / Research Community Intern to help shape a high-quality community at the frontier of robotics and physical AI. This role is about building meaningful spaces for learning, exchange, and connection across the robotics ecosystem. You will help bring together researchers, engineers, and technical builders through paper reading groups, technical discussions, hackathons, curated gatherings, and other community programs that make strong people want to participate and stay engaged. The goal is not simply to run events, but to cultivate a community with real intellectual energy — one that attracts thoughtful people, encourages serious discussion, and strengthens the connection between emerging research and real-world systems. If you are excited about robotics, love being around smart and curious people, and enjoy creating environments where learning and community can thrive, this role could be a great fit. What You’ll Do Build and grow a high-signal robotics community - Help create a community that attracts researchers, engineers, and technical builders in robotics and physical AI - Foster an environment where strong ideas, shared curiosity, and thoughtful exchange can compound over time Organize recurring learning programs - Run paper reading groups around important research directions and major conferences such as ICRA, RSS, and CoRL - Facilitate discussions that go beyond summary and encourage real engagement with the work Create meaningful community experiences - Organize hackathons, technical salons, guest talks, and research-driven events - Host smaller, high-quality gatherings such as dinners and community meetups that deepen relationships across the ecosystem - Design programs that make the community feel both intellectually serious and genuinely welcoming Curate and amplify important ideas - Identify and surface papers, themes, and research directions that matter - Turn technical work into clear, engaging, and accessible community content Bridge research and real-world systems - Connect emerging ideas from the research community to practical questions in robotics, simulation, data, and deployment - Bring outside perspective and community insight back into the team Support long-term ecosystem building - Help strengthen relationships with researchers, labs, developers, and collaborators - Contribute to a community that can become a meaningful gathering point within the robotics ecosystem Who You Are - Deeply interested in robotics, AI, or related technical fields - Excited by new ideas, strong technical conversations, and ambitious builders - Enjoys organizing thoughtful events and bringing the right people together - Has strong taste for what makes a community, discussion, or gathering genuinely valuable - A clear communicator with curiosity, judgment, and follow-through - Self-directed, reliable, and energized by building things from the ground up Nice to Have - Background in robotics, machine learning, computer vision, or a related area - Experience organizing reading groups, workshops, community events, or hackathons - Familiarity with robotics tooling or simulation ecosystems such as: ROS 2, NVIDIA Isaac Sim - Existing connection to technical communities, research groups, or developer ecosystems What You’ll Gain - Exposure to real-world work across robotics, simulation, data, and evaluation - The opportunity to help shape an emerging research and developer ecosystem in physical AI - Access to a growing network of researchers, engineers, and technical builders - Hands-on experience at the intersection of research, community, and frontier technology - Potential path to a longer-term role Why This Role Matters The strongest technical communities are not built through scale alone. They are built through quality, consistency, and the ability to create spaces where talented people genuinely want to participate. In this role, you will help build that kind of space in robotics and physical AI — one where researchers, engineers, and builders come together not just to attend, but to engage, contribute, and grow.