CareerPlan

Driving Foundations Research Intern

Sunnyvale, CA, usInternship$96k–$144k2026-10-20 → 2026-11-11

Core

Conduct novel research in end-to-end autonomous driving, reinforcement learning, and foundation model distillation to enable real-world deployment of AI systems for mobility.

Role type

Research Intern (Autonomous Driving & AI)

Builds

Research prototypes and scientific publications for autonomous parking and driving systems

Domain

Autonomous driving, robotics, computer vision, machine learning

Deliverable

research

Required skills

Python, modern AI/ML frameworks, end-to-end systems, reinforcement learning, self-play, experimental design, data analysis

Preferred skills

Top-tier AI/robotics publications, autonomous driving architectures, multi-modal foundation models, real-time systems, autonomous driving benchmarking

Technologies

Python, modern AI/ML frameworks

Responsibilities

Conduct novel research in E2E, Distillation, and RL methods; Develop research prototypes; Collaborate with researchers; Analyze experimental results; Publish in top-tier conferences (CoRL, ICRA, CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR); Present findings internally and externally