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Research Intern – World-Action Model / VLA for Autonomous Driving

Sunnyvale, CA, us💼 Internship💰 $39–$39🗓 2026-07-07 → 2026-07-31

Core

Designing and training world-action models (autoregressive/diffusion-based) and integrating them with planning for end-to-end or model-based driving policies in autonomous driving.

Role type

Research Intern (Ph.D. student)

Builds

Scalable autonomy research, world models, and driving policies

Domain

Autonomous Driving / ADAS / Generative AI

Deliverable

research

Required skills

generative models (diffusion, autoregressive transformers, VAEs), world models / video prediction, deep learning frameworks, reinforcement learning, model-based planning

Preferred skills

publication record in top venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), familiarity with driving benchmarks (NavSim, Bench2Drive), large-scale distributed training, multi-modal/video data pipelines

Technologies

diffusion models, autoregressive transformers, VAEs, deep learning frameworks

Responsibilities

Designing and training world-action models, integrating world models with planning, summarizing research findings in papers or patents

Seniority

Intern (Ph.D. student)

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