CareerPlan

2027 Summer Intern, PhD

USAInternship2026-09-29 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Define requirements and verification items for pedestrian detection models; analyze logs and test data to evaluate performance and identify false-positive clusters.

Role type

Summer intern, PhD-level requirements engineer (autonomous driving)

Builds

Evaluation frameworks for Perception teams

Domain

Autonomous vehicles / Perception

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

requirements engineering, verification item authoring, data analysis, SQL, Python

Preferred skills

large dataset handling, test flow automation, autonomous vehicle stack knowledge, sensor-to-Perception pipelines

Responsibilities

Determine and author requirements and verification items for pedestrian detection models; Collect and analyze data from existing logs and structured tests to evaluate requirements and identify false-positive clusters; Run evaluations and triage results to track performance and release-over-release changes; Build and use evaluation frameworks to identify improvement opportunities for Perception teams