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Internship 2027 Onboard Infrastructure Engineer, ML Inference

San Francisco, CA💼 Internship🗓 2026-09-10 → 2026-09-26

Core

Integrate LLMs and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models into the onboard Rust middleware stack for autonomous heavy machinery, ensuring deterministic execution on edge compute.

Role type

Intern, Onboard Infrastructure Engineer (ML Inference)

Builds

Core engine for Bedrock's autonomous heavy machinery with real-time control and safety

Domain

Autonomous robotics, heavy construction equipment, edge AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Rust, C++, PyTorch, JAX, GPU architectures, CUDA, parallel computing, multithreading, OS scheduling, memory management, asynchronous programming, IPC

Preferred skills

TensorRT, ONNXRuntime, ExecuTorch, KV-cache management, FP8/INT4 quantization, continuous batching, speculative decoding, multi-modal/VLA models, robotics frameworks

Technologies

Rust, C++, PyTorch, JAX, TensorRT, vLLM, ExecuTorch, NVIDIA Jetson Thor, Nsight Systems, Nsight Compute, eBPF

Responsibilities

Integrate open-source and proprietary LLM/VLA models into the onboard Rust middleware stack; Profile and optimize model execution using TensorRT, vLLM, or custom edge inference runtimes; Streamline sensor tokenization for real-time streams; Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in memory bandwidth, compute, and IPC; Validate performance optimizations on heavy autonomous machinery at test sites

Seniority

Intern

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