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AI Research Intern (BS/MS)
Mountain View, CA +1 · Internship · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
Mountain View - Education
- Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's degree program in Computer Science, EECS, Robotics, AI, or a closely related field.
About the job
Conduct AI research and develop, test, and deploy models for autonomous transport platforms, connecting perception, world models, and action to real-world vehicle control.
What you'll do
- Adapt emerging AI research into model pipelines and validate it using real-world datasets and simulation.
- Prototype and evaluate reinforcement learning, trajectory planning, and distillation algorithms; train and fine-tune multimodal models for vehicle actuation.
- Experiment with world models and analyze driving edge cases, failure modes, and simulation performance.
What they ask for
- Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's program in Computer Science, EECS, Robotics, AI, or a closely related field.
- Coursework, project experience, or research background in at least one listed area: generative world models, video generation, diffusion models, VLA or embodied AI, RL or trajectory optimization, or large-scale multimodal Transformers for robotics or spatio-temporal data.
- Advanced hands-on proficiency with PyTorch or JAX for training and fine-tuning large-scale neural networks.
- Proficiency in Python and working knowledge of C++.
Nice to have
- Prior research, project, or internship experience in autonomous driving, mobile robotics, or spatial AI.
Pay
$70/hr per hour (hourly pay)
Tools
PyTorch, JAX, Python, C++
AI focus
Research and develop perception, world models, reinforcement learning, trajectory planning, and multimodal models for autonomous systems, including mapping sensor inputs and behavioral goals to vehicle actuation.
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