pony.ai
Research Intern - Deep Learning
Fremont, California · Internship · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Education
- Currently pursuing a master's or PhD program in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a similar field.
About the job
Develop and deploy large-scale deep learning models for autonomous driving, including perception, prediction, and real-time vehicle applications.
What you'll do
- Design and develop foundation models trained on real-world data, translating open-ended problems into machine-learning tasks and scalable data pipelines.
- Develop and deploy deep learning models, including vision-language and large language models, and multimodal perception models.
- Optimize models for robust real-time operation under vehicle runtime constraints.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing a master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a similar field.
- Strong deep learning background, including model design, training, and evaluation.
- Experience with deep learning research and tools, and large-scale datasets, preprocessing, and pipeline management.
- Proficiency in Python and C++ software design and development.
Nice to have
- Publications at top-tier conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, or AAAI.
- Experience in ML/DL for behavior prediction, imitation learning, motion planning, or real-time deployment; experience with GPU/CUDA/TensorRT is also preferred.
Pay
$7000/month (Master); $10,000/month (PhD)
Tools
Python, C++, GPU/CUDA/TensorRT
AI focus
Develop and deploy deep learning foundation models, including VLMs and LLMs, for autonomous-driving perception, scene understanding, tracking, prediction, and other vehicle tasks.
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