Automotive AI/ML Fellowship — Remote, 6 Months

Volkswagen Group; Belmont (CA); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work up to 40%

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job summary

Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. seeks Masters/PhD candidates for a six-month fellowship at the Innovation & Engineering Center California (IECC) in Belmont, CA.

The role focuses on applying machine learning to automotive challenges, including autonomous driving, sensor data processing, and robust perception. You will support a team of AI researchers to explore learning methods for perception, develop state-of-the-art AI solutions, and contribute to time-series and sensor-based projects.

Qualifications

• Must be currently enrolled in a Masters or PhD program or graduated within the last six months.
• Must have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch.
• Good knowledge of image processing and machine learning.

Responsibilities

• Driving data pre-processing including checking labels, formatting, etc.
• Support project team in building data pipelines for training deep neural networks.
• Benchmarking and reporting of various neural network models performance.
• Research into suitable new network architectures for time series prediction and anomaly detection.
• Research into improving perception of the environment with a focus on optical sensors.
• Research on supervised and unsupervised learning methods to estimate road participants' depth, motion, and velocity.
• Research on various neural networks for interpretation of camera images (object detection, panoptic segmentation) and trajectory/motion planning.
• Fusion of different neural networks to reduce memory and computation footprint.

Skills

Deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow)

Deep learning frameworks (PyTorch)

Image processing

Independent work / initiative

Education

Masters or PhD candidate or recent graduation

GPA 3.0+

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. seeks Masters/PhD candidates for a six-month fellowship at the Innovation & Engineering Center California (IECC) in Belmont, CA.

The role focuses on applying machine learning to automotive challenges, including autonomous driving, sensor data processing, and robust perception. You will support a team of AI researchers to explore learning methods for perception, develop state-of-the-art AI solutions, and contribute to time-series and sensor-based projects.