CareerPlan

2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, Behavior Post-training

Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)Internship2026-10-19 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Develop machine learning solutions for autonomous driving using synthetic data and post-training methods.

Role type

PhD Research Intern (Autonomous Driving / Reinforcement Learning)

Builds

Tools for sampling synthetic driving data and models trained on mixtures of synthetic and logged data.

Domain

Autonomous driving, Machine Learning, Robotics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Sampling from large models, Post-training methods (SFT, RL, preferences), Modern deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, Jax)

Preferred skills

Open/closed loop decision making in robotics, Synthetic data generation and evaluation, LLM-as-a-judge

Technologies

PyTorch, Jax

Responsibilities

Build tools for sampling, selecting, and discarding synthetic driving data; Train and evaluate models with mixtures of synthetic and logged data; Present and write about methods for synthetic data generation and training

Seniority

Intern