Conduct research at the intersection of computer vision and robotics, training large-scale foundation models and evaluating ideas in simulation and real-world systems to advance embodied applications.
Human Interactive Driving Research Intern, World Models
📜 Description
- Research world modeling, multi-agent interaction, reinforcement learning, perception, or sim-to-real transfer.
- Collaborate with researchers to design, train, and evaluate learning-based driving systems.
- Develop and evaluate prototypes in closed-loop simulations and, when possible, on autonomous driving hardware.
- Integrate and work with large-scale open-source and internal datasets.
- Present findings internally and work toward a top-tier academic publication.
🛠️ Requirements
- Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or related fields.
- Strong background in machine learning, particularly in areas such as deep learning, generative models, reinforcement learning, or probabilistic modeling.
- Hands-on experience training and evaluating world models, model-based reinforcement learning, 3D reconstruction or sensor fusion, and large-scale simulation for robotics or autonomous systems.
- Proficient coding skills with expertise in modern deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, etc.).
- Prior publication(s) in top-tier AI/ML conferences.
- Probabilistic and generative modeling.
- Autonomous driving datasets.
- Open-source foundation models.
- Amazon Web Services (e.g., S3, EC2, SageMaker, etc.).
✨ Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid time off
- Holiday pay
- Sick time
Full job description
At Toyota Research Institute (TRI), we’re on a mission to improve the quality of human life. We’re developing new tools and capabilities to amplify the human experience. To lead this transformative shift in mobility, we’ve built a world-class team advancing the state of the art in AI, robotics, driving, and material sciences.
This is a paid 12-week internship opportunity and is a hybrid, in-office role.
Here’s a glimpse into the Internship experience from some of our TRI interns!
The Team
You will be joining the Extreme Performance Intelligent Control (EPIC) team in the Human Interactive Driving division, a multidisciplinary research team focused on developing a world foundation model for driving—a unified, transferable representation of driving knowledge built from large-scale real-world and simulated data. Together, we are tackling the complex challenges of multi-agent interaction, causal reasoning, and embodied intelligence in highly dynamic, real-world driving environments. Our approach is inspired by cutting-edge generative modeling techniques and powered by scalable infrastructure and open-source data, and we work closely with engineers to deploy our models in simulation and on hardware.
The Internship
As a Ph.D. Research Intern, you will conduct original research at the intersection of machine learning and autonomous driving. Your work will focus on advancing the state of the art in world modeling across various areas, including representation learning, action conditioning, and evaluation. You will have the opportunity to prototype and evaluate your ideas in closed-loop simulations and contribute to research publications alongside TRI scientists. This is an opportunity to test and refine your research in a collaborative, high-impact environment, while working with real-world data and contributing to the future of autonomous systems.
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