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Vision‑Language‑Action (VLA) Research Intern

Sunnyvale, CA, usInternship$125k–$146k2026-11-06 → 2026-11-10

Core

Designing and training world-action models (autoregressive/diffusion-based) to predict future sensor observations or latent states conditioned on ego actions, integrating them with planning for end-to-end or model-based driving policies.

Role type

Research Intern (Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving)

Builds

Scalable autonomy research projects and world-action models

Domain

Autonomous Driving / ADAS / Generative AI / World Models

Deliverable

research

Required skills

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

Preferred skills

top-venue publication record (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), 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